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 2015-05-09, 19:25 #1 Stan   Dec 2011 1001002 Posts MM127 I believe I have a hard and fast proof that MM127 is prime. How can I get it verified without broadcasting the method on the web?
 2015-05-09, 20:13 #2 legendarymudkip     Jun 2014 23×3×5 Posts You probably wanted the miscellaneous math forum. If you really do have a proof, which I doubt you do, a lot of people (especially on this forum) would be very interested to see it, so don't hide it. What if someone comes across it and publishes it, but you didn't want to? You get no credit for the "proof".
2015-05-09, 21:01   #3
R.D. Silverman

Nov 2003

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Quote:
 Originally Posted by Stan I believe I have a hard and fast proof that MM127 is prime. How can I get it verified without broadcasting the method on the web?
Why would you want to hide the method? Existing methods are inadequate.
If you have a new method, then publish it. You'll be famous.

Where did you get you math degree?

Would a moderator move this to misc. math please?

Last fiddled with by R.D. Silverman on 2015-05-09 at 21:02

2015-05-09, 21:22   #4
NBtarheel_33

"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA

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Quote:
 Originally Posted by Stan I believe I have a hard and fast proof that MM127 is prime. How can I get it verified without broadcasting the method on the web?
Stan, the fact that you have made this public, time-stamped post on the Internet is enough to prove your ownership of the proof, should you indeed (which is quite unlikely) have one.

You may therefore feel free to outline and discuss your research, safe in the knowledge that (1) you are protected against plagiarism by your very own original post, and (2) you are among some of the best and most interested minds that you shall ever meet outside of a formal academic setting - both lay and professional - in mathematics and computer science.

If your result is indeed correct, there would be cause for great celebration in mathematics. We would therefore be most interested in seeing your work, and assure you that your ownership of it is fully secure.

2015-05-09, 22:09   #5
R.D. Silverman

Nov 2003

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Quote:
 Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33 Stan, the fact that you have made this public, time-stamped post on the Internet is enough to prove your ownership of the proof, should you indeed (which is quite unlikely) have one. You may therefore feel free to outline and discuss your research, safe in the knowledge that (1) you are protected against plagiarism by your very own original post, and (2) you are among some of the best and most interested minds that you shall ever meet outside of a formal academic setting - both lay and professional - in mathematics and computer science. If your result is indeed correct, there would be cause for great celebration in mathematics. We would therefore be most interested in seeing your work, and assure you that your ownership of it is fully secure.
One major hallmark of a crank is that they believe others will "steal" their ideas if they post them.
They make extremely bold claims then fail to back them up.

 2015-05-09, 22:19 #6 Uncwilly 6809 > 6502     """"""""""""""""""" Aug 2003 101×103 Posts 19·499 Posts Don't forget that there is an award available. You want to be the first to claim it, before anyone else does. GIMPS has over a thousand outstanding assignments above the 100M threshold, so we might get it first if you don't hurry up and publish your method.
 2015-05-10, 00:13 #7 TheMawn     May 2013 East. Always East. 11×157 Posts If you are able to prove that MM127 is prime without using the LL test, you'll have accomplished something which hasn't been done in years. The largest prime number at a given time has "belonged" to GIMPS for a very long time.
2015-05-10, 00:44   #8
retina
Undefined

"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair

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Quote:
 Originally Posted by TheMawn If you are able to prove that MM127 is prime without using the LL test, you'll have accomplished something which hasn't been done in years. The largest prime number at a given time has "belonged" to GIMPS for a very long time.
Well no one has found a factor yet so it must be prime.

 2015-05-10, 01:26 #9 science_man_88     "Forget I exist" Jul 2009 Dumbassville 838410 Posts though I know I'll make no progress as usual it's still getting me to think of applying the multinomial theorem to the thought about $s_{p-2}=a*x$ where a or x is a mersenne number and knowing a modular result on a power of that mersenne number I'm thinking of how I can apply it to the whole multinomial theorem and the values it gives when all x values are the same but as usual I'm painfully stupid.
2015-05-10, 03:48   #10
TheMawn

May 2013
East. Always East.

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Quote:
 Originally Posted by retina Well no one has found a factor yet so it must be prime.
Quote:
 Originally Posted by davar55 And then there's a proof by challenge, where you challenge everyone and anyone to explain (briefly) why they believe, and when the result is nothing additional, one concludes there is no dog.
Yes, I have seen this proof before. You apply the same sort of reasoning as in the proof of no dogs and voilà!

My cats give a slightly smaller number of shits about the MM127 proof, however..

2015-05-10, 05:11   #11
retina
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"The unspeakable one"
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Quote:
 Originally Posted by TheMawn Yes, I have seen this proof before.
Plenty of people have come up with this "proof" so it must be right by sheer popularity.
Quote:
 Originally Posted by TheMawn You apply the same sort of reasoning as in the proof of no dogs and voilà!
There is no spoon.

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