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From: jml@cs.strath.ac.uk (Joseph McLean)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Mersenne primes
Message-ID: <322@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 05:40:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 18 05:40:10 1986
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Reply-To: jml@cs.strath.ac.uk (Joseph McLean)
Organization: Department of Computer Science at Strathclyde University, UK.
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>   Could someone send me the most up to date information about known
>Mersenne primes? I am interested in knowing what "gaps", if any, remain
>unchecked, and what is at present the largest known prime. (I know a
>mathematician who is ready to began Mersenne-finding, but needs to know
>*where*).
>
>ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
>ucbvax!weyl!gsmith                  Institute of Pi Research
>
>
I recently asked the same question and the only reply that I received
was that there was a rumour that 2^216091-1 was a Mersenne prime.I would
also like to know what ranges have been already covered in the search.

   jml,the prime mathematician.