[extropy-chat] new record largest prime

Dan Clemmensen dgc at cox.net
Sun Feb 27 18:36:44 UTC 2005


spike wrote:

>>>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 
>
>  
>
I sort of figured that your message had encountered a rabbit
somewhere, and the rabbit has stolen the carrot. Sort of like
a Spam filter :-)



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