1775*2^332181+1 is prime! (10 digits) Discovered 22-Apr-2001
How was is found?
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Brian is likely to break his own record in about 5 months, with an LLtest of
2^40250087 -1 proceeding rapidly, with Stephan Grupp's simultaneous
test of the same number trailing by 11 days at the moment, both as
part of the continuing mersenne QA effort.
This candidate was P-1 tested by Brian,
(Sprry Spike, I mistyped the list address the first time on the copy i
sent to you)
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:37:11 -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
Nathan Russell wrote:
http://www.half-empty.org/servlet/LoadPage?pageID=ideaideaid=1644sortmode=3viewmode=3
I thought the prime community might want to
On 22 Apr 2001, at 20:37, Spike Jones wrote:
Nathan I liked your comment about the largest genuine composite:
a number known to be composite but for which none of the factors
are known. I suppose we could set up a computer to arbitrarily
generate a few million 20 digit primes by factoring,
I just posted an article on one of my favorite discussion boards,
known as Half-Empty, about distributed computing, asking people on the
site to vote for, and post comments about, their favorite project.
http://www.half-empty.org/servlet/LoadPage?pageID=ideaideaid=1644sortmode=3viewmode=3
I
Nathan Russell wrote:
http://www.half-empty.org/servlet/LoadPage?pageID=ideaideaid=1644sortmode=3viewmode=3
I thought the prime community might want to stop by and take a look
at
what's been said.
Nathan I liked your comment about the largest genuine composite:
a number known to be composite but
Spike Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] comments;
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Nathan I liked your comment about the largest genuine composite:
a number known to be composite but for which none of the factors
are known. I suppose we could set up a computer to arbitrarily
generate a few
