Re: Mersenne: Fwd: Predicting Mersenne Primes

2002-03-26 Thread teun Tilburg University
Hello Brian, In the statistical sense, yes, it is possible to predict. That is rather similar to the statistician's argument during the briefing for the first 1000 bomber raid over Cologne in May 1942 that predicted only two aircraft would collide, despite the incredible density of aircraft

Re: Mersenne: M4 completely factored!

2001-12-21 Thread teun Tilburg University
Hi, Another milestone has been acomplished. M4 has been completely factored, hmmm; my C8 easily resolves M4. Actually, M13 and M22 are much nicer :-) cheers, teun _ Unsubscribe list info --