At 11:00 PM 1/3/2006 -0500, George Woltman wrote:
>The exact date is lost, but it was very, very early in January, 1996
>that the first prime95 was uploaded to my Compuserve web page. I
>spread the news on sci.math and it didn't take long for the first
>download and range reservation. (If memory serves me, a Mr. Singer
>was GIMPS member #1).
The Google Groups Genie says:
George Woltman Jan 22 1996, 12:00 am
You are cordially invited to join the search for the next Mersenne prime.
I've created a program for Pentium and 486-based PCs to run Lucas-Lehmer
primality tests. I've also created a set of Web pages to organize the
search. The program can be downloaded from:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/justforfun/prime.htm
These Web pages also let you "checkout" a range of primes to test.
There are over 24,000 primes under 1,000,000 that have not been tested.
Sincerely,
George Woltman
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http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/b89767957966699
b/6349980fc814268e?lnk=st&q=woltman+group%3Asci.math&rnum=45&hl=en#6349980fc
814268e
--Luke, Number 2?
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