[extropy-chat] new mersenne prime?

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] new mersenne prime?
> 
> Can the $100K reward be claimed for a prime with at least 10 million
> digits that is not a Mersenne prime?
> 
> - samantha

Yes.

This is a comical understatement of course.  If you figured 
out how to determine the primeness of a ten million digit non-mersenne 
number before heat death of the universe, the measly 100k would 
be irrelevant.  Mathematicians all over the world would fall 
prostrate before you, crying out for your mathematical mercy
and digital blessing.  Personally I would give up my 9 to 5 
forthwith and dedicate the remainder of my pathetic numerically-deficient 
existence to collecting pebbles from along the path upon which you 
have trod.

spike