Re: Mersenne: First illegal prime?

2001-03-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Nathan Russell wrote: > I might note that it's impossible to encrypt something so it cannot > be copied exactly; even now, it is very common for pirate DVD > manufacturers to simply copy the original disc byte for byte, without > even needing to crack the encryption. I guess "grey bits" never ca

Re: Mersenne: First illegal prime?

2001-03-20 Thread Nathan Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:22:11 -, Brian Beesley wrote: >On 20 Mar 2001, at 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Phil Carmody's 'illegal prime') >I take it "illegal" means that the particular number contains a >representation in some form of language f

Re: Mersenne: First illegal prime?

2001-03-20 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 20 Mar 2001, at 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This has probably already been posted to the list by > others, but as I get it in digest form, I can't say for > sure.) > > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/17/1639250.shtml > > The numberin question is a 1401-digit probable prime. > I've

Re: Mersenne: New exponents and P4 update

2001-03-20 Thread Nathan Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:17:02 -0500, George Woltman wrote: >Hi all, > > As promised, the server now has about 1000 small exponents >to give out for triple-checks. Out of curiousity, am I the only one who, while running triple-checks by arrangem

Re: Mersenne: First illegal prime?

2001-03-20 Thread Michael Gebis
> "EWMAYER" == EWMAYER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote the following on Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:35:08 EST EWMAYER> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/17/1639250.shtml EWMAYER> The numberin question is a 1401-digit probable prime. I've EWMAYER> asked Phil Carmody whether it's been rigorou

Mersenne: New exponents and P4 update

2001-03-20 Thread George Woltman
Hi all, As promised, the server now has about 1000 small exponents to give out for triple-checks. Also, the server has about 1000 new exponents between 7 million and 12 million to assign for first-time tests. These exponents were tested once but had at least one ROUNDOFF > 0.4 o

Mersenne: First illegal prime?

2001-03-20 Thread EWMAYER
This has probably already been posted to the list by others, but as I get it in digest form, I can't say for sure.) http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/17/1639250.shtml The numberin question is a 1401-digit probable prime. I've asked Phil Carmody whether it's been rigorously proven prime, or me