> > missing. #2: That the discovered M38, which all we knew about was that it was
> > in the 6M range, was actually around 6.9M, which I was correct about, and #3:
>
> How did you make this estimate ? Fit an exponential curve to the known
> primes, and extrapolate the 1st one that should have at least 1m digits ?
Who knows the misterious ways of STL?
> Why isn't something like this used in GIMPS to select numbers to work on ?
> -- use current known primes to estimate the location of the next, start
> allocating numbers to work on at that number, and keep alternating +/-1
> till it's found.... ?
The verious conjectures all state something about the *average*
distribution of Mersenne primes. They don't say anything about the
local distribution.
-Lucas
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