On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 07:15:51AM +0300, Jukka Santala wrote:
> >(Personally, I don't believe there's any predictability to them)
>
> But then, they'd have to be randomly scattered around. To me, that
> idea seems a bit strange. These numbers are given a special
We tend to be loose with the term "random," and in this case I think we
mean "no easily determined pattern. E.g., "the primes are random."
But that is not whay I decided to reply, rather I'd like to say I just
realized a page I wrote which derives the Wagstaff conjecture can be found
at
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne/heuristic.html
I thought I had linked this in sometime ago--but I had not. This does not
present Wagstaff's "derivation," but rather a more naive (or shall we say
simplistic) approach that yields the same result.
Chris Caldwell
The Prime Pages
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