At 04:40 PM 7/25/99 -0400, Jeff Woods wrote:
> While I agree with this, if the effort does NOT fragment and jump ahead
to potential 10MM-digits, someone else is likely to find and claim that
$100K with a Proth prime, since checking those will take far less time than
a Mersenne test of the same order.
Is that true? I thought that a LL test of a Mersenne was faster.
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| Jud McCranie |
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| 127*2^96744+1 is prime! (29,125 digits, Oct 20, 1998) |
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