You have to turn up the TV to hear it over your farm.

You've written "2[sup]20996011[/sup] - 1 is prime!" on classroom boards, etc. -- guilty --

[QUOTE=ixfd64]You've written "2[sup]20996011[/sup] - 1 is prime!" on classroom boards, etc. -- guilty --[/QUOTE]

You change your .sig to "2[sup]20996011[/sup] - 1 is prime!".

You legally change your name to 2[sup]20996011[/sup] - 1

You mourn for the false M41 that recently surfaced (the one "found" not using Prime95), even though the number was less than M40.

You hire a psychic to help you find prime numbers.

You've wirten factorizations of numbers (especially Mersenne numbers) on school whiteboards. -- guilty --

Well, in my Chorale room, there was a list of things for Concert Choir (I'm not in it, btw) to do. As a joke, I added "help factor 2[sup]4096[/sup] + 1" at the bottom (F[sub]12[/sub]). Yeah, it wasn't Mersenne related, though...

You are arrested by the police for writing your birthdate as
20-99-6011
on all official documents

you check
 

you check your bus tickets numbers to primality...

[url="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=2304"]http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=2304[/url]

...you accept to participate to the National Amateurs Marathon if and only if you get a prime number to be identified... (guilty :blush: )

...you are always the first one to download latest nofactor.zip :whistle:

... you apply for a $100M grant that will be used for what you call: "critical research purposes" (i.e. finding Mersenne primes).

...you change the icon of your Prime95 folder to the Prime95 icon (guilty)

You try to run a primality-testing program on an Xbox. :whistle: