On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:53 PM, William Stein wrote:
>>> [[his
>>> timing turns
>>> out to really have been of printing out the answer via the notebook.
>>> better would be to do
>>> sage: time s = 2^3021377-1
>>> CPU time: 0.00 s, Wall time: 0.00 s
>>> sage: time open('output.txt','w').write(str(s))
>>> CPU time: 0.70 s, Wall time: 0.70 s
>>>
>>> which gives a link to a file that you can download that contains
>>> the answer.]]
>>
>> Yep, that was my diagnosis of the 6 minutes too. Or perhaps as
>> mentioned it was a different Mersenne prime that we're talking about,
>
> It wasn't. 2^3021377-1 is the third largest known and the next two
> larger are
> only slightly bigger.
Good point. Even the latest ones found shouldn't take much longer to
compute the decimal representation of (certainly not minutes).
- Robert
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