In a message dated 01/12/02 01:58:39 GMT Standard Time, ... How nice to have one's work corrected and rounded out by another - especially when the answer...
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Payam Samidoost
samidoost
Dec 1, 2002 11:41 am
... Please, David, use more kind words than _plunder_. We must reconciliate both parties not to ignite a new conflict. (1) First of all, you can see my...
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Yves Gallot
galloty@...
Dec 1, 2002 2:53 pm
... I thought that the code that runs on client is just a PRP test... then how it could have identified a prime? ... Who is 'we' and how? If they make the...
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nrussell@...
pakaran42
Dec 1, 2002 3:35 pm
--On Sunday, December 01, 2002 3:57 PM +0100 Yves Gallot ... Would I be truly evil if I were to help SB out by "discovering" this number tomorrow? It would...
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David Broadhurst
djbroadhurst
Dec 1, 2002 6:01 pm
Thanks, Payam, for explaining the status of k=4847. ... This agrees with one of the premises in my question. ... This agrees with the other. David...
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sander3005
Dec 1, 2002 6:10 pm
... But the 5 largest known primes were discovered this way...
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Payam Samidoost
samidoost
Dec 1, 2002 6:41 pm
Yves ... that ... computer. The context of their message shows _clearly_ that they have checked the primality using one of the following softwares: (a) your...
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nrussell@...
pakaran42
Dec 1, 2002 6:45 pm
--On Sunday, December 01, 2002 6:10 PM +0000 sander3005 ... Those 5 primes were discovered by people who knew which numbers they were testing, and could have...
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gll
glong62@...
Dec 1, 2002 7:00 pm
I would like for you real mathematicians to tell me if this approach has any promise, or is it like so many others which seem plausible only to turn out to be...
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sander3005
Dec 1, 2002 7:07 pm
... The discoverer of the PRP also knew what number he was testing. I don't see how thats different with GIMPS ... Thats true, but it would be very inefficient...
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Juan Ignacio Casaubon
jicasaubon
Dec 1, 2002 7:29 pm
Hi, I am physicisc, I do not want so much the Nobel Price. It is a very poor price for me. The only I want is to learn something of twin primes in this egroup....
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David Broadhurst
djbroadhurst
Dec 1, 2002 8:14 pm
... indeed...
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Jon Perry
jon_perryuk
Dec 1, 2002 9:30 pm
A challenge...find the longest/highest sequence of primes with strict gaps of 2^k. e.g. 6k-1, 6k+1, 6k+5, 6k+13, 6k+29, 6k+61, 6k+125 Jon Perry ...
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David Broadhurst
djbroadhurst
Dec 1, 2002 10:13 pm
... how about k=639523, for really weedy start?...
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Yves Gallot
galloty@...
Dec 1, 2002 10:32 pm
... It's not clear for me and the goal of a proof is to convince other people. Something like: "The primality of the number was proved with Proth's theorem for...
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gchil0
Dec 1, 2002 10:37 pm
Hi, ... prime is, ... human ... prime is. One could equally well argue that with your wonderful software (and many others), you have taught the computer how to...
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gchil0
Dec 1, 2002 10:45 pm
Hi, There seems to be a lot of resentment and mis-information floating around on both sides, while only 1 side seems to be represented on this list. Please...
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David Broadhurst
djbroadhurst
Dec 1, 2002 11:18 pm
... How does that help to cool things down? David (unpoisioned mind)...
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gchil0
Dec 2, 2002 2:43 am
David: Yes, there is a lot of resentment around...I warned you about that. The messages also contain: "I feel especially bad for Phil as I did use his...
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David Broadhurst
djbroadhurst
Dec 2, 2002 3:39 am
On a lighter note, I was reading http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/as-29.11.02-000/ ... Here, with a couple of years of schoolchild german from a long way...
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William Garnett III
wfgarnett3
Dec 2, 2002 4:38 am
Congratulations on finding this prime!! This is a huge mathematical discovery, eliminating one more candidate in the Sierpinski problem. william ... their...
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liufs
liufs@...
Dec 2, 2002 5:53 am
... => an infinite number ... => no balls. ... Now I discovered that the trap is Q) At time t>1, how many balls are there in the bucket?. We modify the Q) to...
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Payam Samidoost
samidoost
Dec 2, 2002 7:57 am
... Thanks William. It appears that almost all of the people on both sides have forgotten this remarkably great fact ;o) and are paying more attention to ...
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Paul Jobling
paul_joblinguk
Dec 2, 2002 9:52 am
Well, I have read the correspondence, and I have to say that there seems to be a little fault on both sides - from this group there has been some carping and ...
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Ken Davis
kraden
Dec 2, 2002 1:05 pm
Hi All, I must say that it distresses me greatly to see such rancour amongst such great minds. I never realised that people were reserving( proclaiming...
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David Broadhurst
djbroadhurst
Dec 2, 2002 3:17 pm
[Please note new title, for change of focus.] We do not yet know whether 46157*2^698207+1 is a Keller prime [not yet proven] i.e. whether 46157*2^n+1 is...
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Nathan Russell
pakaran42
Dec 2, 2002 3:49 pm
46157*2^698207 + 1 is prime ! (a = 3) [210186 digits] Verification with another base will take about 11 hours. Nathan...
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Jon Perry
jon_perryuk
Dec 2, 2002 7:28 pm
? p=3837137;c2=2;while (isprime(p),print1(p,",");p=p+c2;c2=c2*2) 3837137,3837139,3837143,3837151,3837167,3837199,3837263, ? Confirmed. Jon Perry ...
Oh dear, I should have read the title: "gaps" ! Humble apologies, Jon, those weren't ever supposed to be successive. That's far too hard for me. David...
