I thought it was a bit nasty in the last paragraph. The author doesn't know why people search for Mersenne primes, so it must be stupid.
Check the attributions, it was written by someone at Science News. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ Bob Farrington 12/1/2001 10:53:47 AM PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathan Russell wrote: > So someone managed to find, or mis-find, the exponent, possibly by > speaking with Entropia. I wonder how much of a blow this is to the > chance of GIMPS' getting a mention in other newspapers/sites. >> Shame it's such an amateur article too. Almost anyone on this list could have written a more exciting, more interest-evoking article than that. There's a vague reference to the science whenever there's a "gee whizz" to be had, but basically the feel of an outsider without much knowledge or interest who just wants to get that "headline" out and who cares if it screws up anyone else. I would have expected a lot better from Academic Press than that. Perhaps someone here should write a better one for publication on the GIMPS website? (I can't as I'm on business for the next week, and by then it'll presumably be old news.) << _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
