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Subject: Re: Mersenne: M#39 news!
...I would have expected
George's initial announcement to say over 4 million digits rather
than well over 3.5 million digits (which would
At 08:45 PM 12/3/01 -, Daran wrote:
At 08:02 PM 12/1/01 -, Brian Beesley wrote:
I would strongly suggest that procedures are changed so that the
next time a Mersenne prime is discovered, no information at all is
released except to prior discoverers of Mersenne primes...
As a matter of
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/11302001/grapha.htm
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Warut Roonguthai wrote:
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/11302001/grapha.htm
Look like the cat is out of the bag now - it's 2^13,466,917 - 1. Was
this early publication indended? I thought the press release was due
only after the independent double check completed, but then they quote
At 05:47 PM 12/1/2001 +0100, Alexander Kruppa wrote:
Look like the cat is out of the bag now - it's 2^13,466,917 - 1. Was
this early publication indended? I thought the press release was due
only after the independent double check completed, but then they quote
Tim Cusak of Entropia, which makes
It looks to me like someone goofed in publishing this, for a few
reasons. The article consistently gets the definition of Mersenne
numbers wrong. While it does mention something about the expoential
2p, it claims that Mersenne numbers are of the form 2p - 1, that
the previous Mersenne prime
I thought it was a bit nasty in the last paragraph. The author doesn't know
why people search for Mersenne primes, so it must be stupid.
Check the attributions, it was written by someone at Science News.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/
Bob Farrington
12/1/2001 10:53:47 AM PST, [EMAIL
On 1 Dec 2001, at 17:47, Alexander Kruppa wrote:
Warut Roonguthai wrote:
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/11302001/grapha.htm
Look like the cat is out of the bag now - it's 2^13,466,917 - 1. Was
this early publication indended? I thought the press release was due
only after
