-----Original Message-----
From: Jud McCranie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 May 2001 04:34
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: 26 exponents
>At 09:44 PM 5/14/2001 -0400, Nathan Russell wrote:
>They would still be contributing towards milestones. If there are
>exponents below a milestone that never have been assigned, they would get
>them.
Are there any exponents below #38 that have never been assigned?
[...]
>But there could be one smaller than what now seems to be #38, because there
>are exponents in that range that haven't had even 1 LL.
I'm not adept at the number theory, but presumably these are more likely to be
prime for no other reason than because they are relatively small, and the
density of Mersenne primes decreases with size.
>| Jud McCranie |
Daran G.
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