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From: southard@unc.UUCP (Scott Southard)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: 30th Mersenne prime
Message-ID: <94@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 18:29:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.94
Posted: Sat Sep 28 18:29:55 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 08:32:02 EDT
References: <30300001@waltz>
Reply-To: southard@unc.UUCP (Scott Southard)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <30300001@waltz> dsouza@waltz writes:
>
>Today's Austin American Statesman reports that computer scientists have
>"stumbled on" the largest prime number ever discovered, which is
>2**216091 - 1. Which consists of 65050 digits and is the 30th Mersenne
>prime.
>
I myself had discovered this prime long ago, using only my Apple ][ computer,
a pencil, and 42 boxes of narrow-ruled paper.  I guess if I want any 
recognition in this world I'd better start publishing my findings early....

Scott Southard
<southard@unc>


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