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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Largest known, non-Mersenne Prime
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 20:57:58 EDT
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Does someone have the characteristics of the largest known
non-Mersenne Prime (not the computer :-)) number?  I recall it
was on Nova's Math Mystery Tour.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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