[extropy-chat] new mersenne prime?

[Samantha Atkins]

Really?  Cool!  :-)

Yeah, I figured it would be nearly impossible.  I need to do some  
reading on precisely why it is easier to prove Mersenne primes.  A  
refresh on modular arithmetic would be helpful.

On the number of digits in your new candidate shouldn't
floor( e * log(2, 10)) + 1
where e is your exponent give it to you?

- samantha

On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:30 AM, spike wrote:

>> 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
>
>
>
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