41st Known Mersenne Prime Reported!! - Page 37

Maybeso · 2004-06-11, 00:16

Go Portland!

PrimeCruncher · 2004-06-11, 00:41

GAH! Someone edit that last post and get rid of some of those bananas! They're wasting FAR too many CPU cycles!

ixfd64 · 2004-06-11, 01:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by jinydu

"Think of the biggest number you can and then double it, triple it, quadruple it. Sky's the limit.

You still won't be in Josh Findley's stratosphere. And you definitely won't be in the orbit of the tens of thousands of people who join him in a strange, unabashedly geeky quest for the largest prime number known to man."

I'm sure people have heard of the googolplex before. Its much bigger than M41.

Fermat numbers 0wnz googleplex.

jinydu · 2004-06-11, 01:29

F333 is the first Fermat number bigger than a googolplex.

But in order for a Mersenne number to be bigger than a googolplex, the exponent most be over 3.32192809 googol!

Digital Concepts · 2004-06-11, 06:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

Our first U.S. newspaper report:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...indley10e.html

I'd rate that write up as one of my favorites. Now, M42 where are you?

Terrence Law · 2004-06-14, 02:52

Satisfying the New Mersenne Conjecture

Finally, 58*13466917+1 divides (2^13466917+1)/3, so the NMC remains alive.

Another result - 486*24036583+1 divides (2^24036583+1)/3, so the New Mersenne Conjecture still holds.

Terrence Law · 2004-06-14, 02:54

Here is what they establish the New Mersenne Conjecture.

Let p be any odd natural number. If two of the following conditions hold, then so does the third:

1) p = 2^k +/- 1 or p = 4^k +/- 3

2) 2^p - 1 is a prime

3) (2^p + 1)/3 is a prime

2004-06-11, 00:16	#397
Maybeso Aug 2002 Portland, OR USA 2·137 Posts	Go Portland! Go Portland! Go Portland!

2004-06-14, 02:52	#402
Terrence Law May 2004 2×37 Posts	Satisfying the New Mersenne Conjecture Satisfying the New Mersenne Conjecture Finally, 5813466917+1 divides (2^13466917+1)/3, so the NMC remains alive. Another result - 48624036583+1 divides (2^24036583+1)/3, so the New Mersenne Conjecture still holds.

2004-06-14, 02:54	#403
Terrence Law May 2004 2·37 Posts	Off Topic - New Mersenne Conjecture. Here is what they establish the New Mersenne Conjecture. Let p be any odd natural number. If two of the following conditions hold, then so does the third: 1) p = 2^k +/- 1 or p = 4^k +/- 3 2) 2^p - 1 is a prime 3) (2^p + 1)/3 is a prime

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2004-06-11, 00:41	#398
PrimeCruncher Sep 2003 Borg HQ, Delta Quadrant 2×3³×13 Posts	GAH! Someone edit that last post and get rid of some of those bananas! They're wasting FAR too many CPU cycles!

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jinydu Dec 2003 Hopefully Near M48 2·3·293 Posts	F333 is the first Fermat number bigger than a googolplex. But in order for a Mersenne number to be bigger than a googolplex, the exponent most be over 3.32192809 googol!