On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 10:29:02PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> Jabari Zakiya wrote:
> > This is to announce the release of my paper "Ultimate Prime Sieve --
> > Sieve of Zakiiya (SoZ)" in which I show and explain the development of
> > a class of Number Theory Sieves to generate prime numbers.
> 
> do you understand that the GIMPS project is working with prime numbers 
> that have a million digits (2^3,000,000 or more)?

Looking at the example

| To check the primality of any integer just do: 13328237.primz?

my guess is that Jabari possibly mistakes the exponents in GIMPS
search for the Mersenne numbers.

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