Subject: Re: [HM] Mersenne primes and Russian mathematicians
From: Ignacio Larrosa Can~estro (ilarrosa@lander.es)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 14:39:55 EDT
> Which are the Mersenne primes 31 to 38th?
That is immediate history! The Mersenne numbers are 2^N-1. The exponents
of Mersenne prime numbers 31 to 38 are:
31 216091 Slowinski 1985
32 756839 Slowinski & Gage 1992
33 859433 Slowinski & Gage 1994
34 1257787 Slowinski & Gage 1996
35 1398269 GIMPS 1996
36* 2976221 GIMPS 1997
37* 3021377 GIMPS 1998
38* 6972593 GIMPS 1999
* Its not full proved that there are not other mersenne prime less than
those
The last four were found for GIMPS, in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. GIMPS
is a project of distributed computation on Internet.
At this page http://www.ctv.es/USERS/gbv/GIMPS/prime.htm , in spanish,
you can find links to mersenne primes, their search and history.
In particular you could be interested in
http://www.scruznet.com/~luke/mersenne.htm
and
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml
Un saludo,
Ignacio Larrosa Can~estro
A Corun~a (Espan~a)
ilarrosa@linuxfan.com
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