[extropy-chat] new record largest prime

spike spike66 at comcast.net
Sun Feb 27 16:53:04 UTC 2005


> >225964951 - 1 is prime.
> >
> >
> I think you mean:
>     one less than two to the power of 25,964,951
> Sure enough, that's a big number. 25,964,951 binary digits,
> all ones.

Ja I superscripted it in the original.  The plaintext undid
the superscript.  Too bad for Dan Rather his copy machine
didn't do that as well.  I coulda put in a ^ however.  {8^]  

spike 








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