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Eauz
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posted 11 December 2003 05:48 PM

w0w!

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when he glanced at the screen at 2:30 p.m. and saw "New Mersenne prime found."

Just shows what you can accompish when doing a research project...

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spatrioter
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posted 11 December 2003 06:08 PM

Reminds me of the Canadian psychological thriller "Cube".

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abnormal
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posted 11 December 2003 06:50 PM

Interesting - one minor observation though. The number "1" is not prime. It's a matter of the
real definition of "Prime Number" . I still bear the scars of a fourth year number theory course to remind me of that [the not divisisble by anything but itself or one is really the definition of something called an irredudible number which, if you consider the Natural Numbers happens to be the same thing.

I have no idea what is going on with this link but [URL= http://makeashorterlink.com/?W292329C6]this[/URL] does discuss things in a little more detail.

[ 11 December 2003: Message edited by: abnormal ]

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