At 02:20 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Darxus wrote:
>Did I misunderstand ? Is Mn on that page actually referring to the
>mersenne prime number n, and not P for the mersenne prime number n ?
Yes. Mn is the prime number, not the exponent. Take the log of the
exponent or the log of the log of the actual number.
>And
>that log base 2 of the exponent of the mersenne prime number n should be a
>line ?
Any log will give a straight line (approximately).
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