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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Largest prime number (long)
Message-ID: <678@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 08:23:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 08:23:58 1985
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In article <1626@trwrba.UUCP> suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre) writes:
>>		It's a very useful input for random number generators!
>I've been wondering if what was posted was output by a random number
>generator.  That is, the whole thing might just be a bizarre put on!
>Has anyone *checked* the posting?

It's no put-on; that *really is* the largest Mersenne prime!  It was
generated by a variation of a program in a recent _D_r_._ _D_o_b_b_s.

AWR