Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 14:27:13 05/26/05
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On May 26, 2005 at 17:20:08, Sune Fischer wrote: >On May 26, 2005 at 16:37:48, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>You are right. The largest currently known prime number has 7,816,230 digits. >>There are now five known prime numbers with more than one million digits. > >Why do people keep repeating to me what I said? :) I did slightly more than repeating what you said. "Five known prime numbers" with more than one million digits is more precise than "a handful or so". :-) >I think these bots just scan a range of mersenne numbers. When they find one >they can't easily dispute as non-prime it goes through tougher tests for final >primality verification. Yes, essentially that is exactly how it works. >Finding a number that is 99.99% positively prime is "easy", proving it 100% is >though :) Hey, now *you* are repeating what *I* just said! :-) Tord
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