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From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: 30th Mersenne prime
Message-ID: <3186@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 17:40:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.3186
Posted: Sat Sep 28 17:40:17 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:25:23 EDT
References: <30300001@waltz>
Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll)
Organization: Rational Swamiconductor, Sanivale
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In article <30300001@waltz> dsouza@waltz writes:
 >Quote from the article:
 >"While there is no known practical use for 65000-digit prime numbers,
 >the method that finds them requires trillions of calculations, and is
 >therefore a useful test of the reliability of large supercomputers...

Tell that to the NSA...  :-}

chongo <> /\oo/\


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