<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Actually, we're going to fix that in the next release. Nature or expectations, I'll leave that for the reader to guess. :)</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Dan</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Mike Dougherty <msd001@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, March 31, 2010 7:21:13 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] mersenne primes again<BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2010/3/30 spike <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</A>></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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