[ExI] mersenne primes again

[Dan]

Actually, we're going to fix that in the next release. Nature or expectations, I'll leave that for the reader to guess. :)

Regards,

Dan


From: Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 7:21:13 AM
Subject: Re: [ExI] mersenne primes again


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


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>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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