> (I'm quite poor at choosing subjects, you see.)
>
> Well, I found my notecard of predictions that I had calculated a while ago
> with my conjecture. Here are some of the values I computed. These can either
> be used for a good laugh (M100 in particular is nice to look at), or you can
> write these values down and see how close they hit the mark (live long and
> find Mersennes?). At the time I only had data for Mersenne prime exponents up
> to 3021377 (i.e. not 6972593), and I calculated what M37 should have been as
> a test. It's pretty close. My prediction for the 6M prime was also close.
> Now, to find the missing Mersenne....
>
> Here I call M# to be q instead of 2^q-1 for brevity.
>
> M37 (known at the time to actually be 3021377): 3166795
> M38: 4673434 (the elusive missing Mersenne?!? If there is no Mersenne prime
> around here, then the 3021377-6972593 gap is almost as large as the 127-521
> gap!)
If Noll's Island Theorem/Theory/Hypothesis is true then there are two of
Mersenne primes in this region.
Therefore, it is M40 below (???!!!???) or M41 (even more ! & ?) if
M(6896873) is the the `upper' (north?) part of the island.
Let's find them all -:) !!!!
> M39: 6896873 (There is a prime at 6972593 in this region. But is it M38 or
[snip]
> - -*---*-------
> S.T.L.
Wojciech Florek (WsF)
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