[ExI] mersenne primes again

[Mike Dougherty]

2010/3/30 spike <spike66 at att.net>

>
> The more or less log-linear relationship held for over 500 years, then in
> 2003 for some very odd reason which is still way beyond my (or anyone
> else's) ability to explain, the last 8 of the known Mersennes clustered,
> they went off on a completely new trajectory.  Isn't nature weird?
>
>

Nah, nature isn't weird - it's natural.  People's expectations are weird.
 First they're weird for being right, then they're weird for being wrong.
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