RE: Mersenne: Eff.org prizes

[Paul Leyland]

> Will gimps support the search for the 1,000,000,000 digit prime?
> How many years would it take for a PC to factor such a prime?

Not long at all.  If it is prime, its only factors are 1 and itself.


Paul
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