Re: Mersenne: The $100,000 award for 10,000,000 digit prime

[Spike Jones]

George Woltman wrote:

>4)  The discoverers of any Mersenne primes between now and the 10,000,000
>digit discovery.  This will encourage an orderly exploration of the exponents
>and keep up interest over the coming years.

You have anticipated my idea, George.  The EFF awards should have been
structured this way to start with.  Even better would be dividing equally
between George, Scott, discoverers of Mersenne <10^10^7, discover of
the first prime >10^10^7, and me.  [kidding on the last part  {8^D  ]  spike

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