I'll forward your attempted post. I don't remember Eric's prediction, but if true it is quite insightful (or lucky).
>From: "Dale Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Predicting Mersenne Primes > >I tried to post this on the Mersenne mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED], >but it never showed up. >I was wondering if is was possible to predict where a Mersenne Prime will be? >I ask because I was looking at the mersenne.org website and noticed that >it states that on December 6, 2001, the 39th known Mersenne Prime was >found. It was listed as 2^13466917-1. >I was also looking through some of the past digests from the list and >noticed that an Eric Hahn posted a message on July 30, 2000, stating that >one of the ranges a Mersenne Prime should be found was between >2^13430227-1 and 2^13501387. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
