I would be more worried about a more exact definition of the word small.
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Date: Monday, February 14, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Smooth and hairy numbers
>I would think that 2^727 -1 would qualify as hairy.
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>> If smooth numbers are ones whose prime factors are all small,
>> what then are hairy numbers? Is there an official definition?
>>
>> "And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my
>> brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:" (Gen. 27:11)
>>
>> George S.
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