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10600
While programing a comment lint for the new database system an old question has come up. In the past we have let "ECPP" be an archivable class. With some...
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Jan 1, 2003
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10601
... As we recently witnessed. ... Is it a property of the number or the proof? If a property of the number, then ECPP and APRCL classes contain the same ...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 1, 2003
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10602
please see OP: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/primenumbers/message/8856 I have tested 1<x<=10^11 (4,772,369,646 PrPs). Many thanks to Michael Angel who tested...
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Jan 1, 2003
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10603
... Re: Table #48 in Beiler's book on "least exponents" i.e. ORDER of p, to any base, e.g. ORD4 (7) = 3 or 4^3 == is congruent to 1 MOD 7. Thus, 3 is the...
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Jan 2, 2003
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10604
... You may wish to consider what the factoring community does in analgous cases. It's occasionally the case that a factorization is found by two methods...
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10605
A new version availible here http://217.35.81.229/gmp/prime1.15.tar.bz2 which corrects some minor bugs , thanks to Phil Carmody NOTE: This should still be...
Jason Moxham
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Jan 2, 2003
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10606
... I'm curious if there's anything special about the ... I have also looked at these factors.. It seems and this is only a conjecture that Let a1<a2 then if...
Gary Chaffey
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Jan 2, 2003
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10607
... There are three kinds of bugs: 1) Bugs that can make a prime number be declared composite 2) Bugs that can make a composite number be declared prime 3)...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 2, 2003
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10608
... The recently corrected bug was type 3 , although as it was rare it acted like type 1 ... No specific reason , except the usual bugs that are in any program...
Jason Moxham
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Jan 2, 2003
2:51 pm
10609
... 1) ECPP is at present an archivable class, with a top-20. I believe that it should stay like this, with Chris trying to chase up the folk in Marcel's...
David Broadhurst <d.b...
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Jan 2, 2003
5:47 pm
10610
... Maybe Marcel could try to encourage his top-20 to contact Chris? Congrats to Jeff Heleen: http://www.ellipsa.net/pages/primotop20.html (10^4769 - 1) / 3 -...
David Broadhurst <d.b...
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Jan 2, 2003
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10611
http://listserv.nodak.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0301&L=nmbrthry&P=R2 has an interesting variant on the Sierpinski problem from Sun Zhi-Wei (of Wall-Sun-Sun...
David Broadhurst <d.b...
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Jan 2, 2003
7:48 pm
10612
Comment: Since Payam's PrP 19249+2^551542 is effectively unprovable, Prof. Sun Zhi-Wei's appeal is essentially directed at SoB, telling them that if/when...
David Broadhurst <d.b...
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Jan 2, 2003
8:26 pm
10613
Hello all and happy New Year, Could someone tell me, please, if this "stands up"? All odd numbers of the form (a^2 + b^2) / 2 with both a and b being odd, that...
David Litchfield
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Jan 3, 2003
1:20 am
10614
... (03:22) gp > (a^2+b^2)/2 - (((a+b)/2)^2+((a-b)/2)^2) %1 = 0 i.e. if n=(a^2+b^2)/2, then n=(((a+b)/2)^2+((a-b)/2)^2) Phil ===== The answer to life's mystery...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 3, 2003
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10615
... It means I'm running The PARI Group's "gp" package at 3:22am. It's free, it's incredibly powerful, and it answers these kinds of questions without even...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 3, 2003
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10616
http://br.crashed.net/~drini/books/Advanced_Number_Theory.zip http://br.crashed.net/~drini/books/Advances_In_Number_Theory_(PDF).zip ...
Jose Ramón Brox
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Jan 3, 2003
11:26 am
10617
So we can write: (a+b)/2)^2+((a-b)/2)^2 =a^2/4 + ab/2 + b^2/4 + a^2/4 - ab/2 + b^2/4 =a^2/2 + b^2/2 Jon Perry perry@... ...
Jon Perry
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Jan 3, 2003
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10618
... http://www.bookfinder.com/ has access to a wider selection of books, but with the drawback that you have to pay for them (which is after all what makes...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 3, 2003
12:37 pm
10619
Briefly: forprime (p=1000000,1000500, ep=eulerphi((p-1)*(p+1));print1(ep":"ep/(p^2-1)*1.0",")) indicates 0.22~< phi(p^2-1)/(p^2-1) <~0.33 leading one to the...
Jon Perry
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Jan 3, 2003
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10620
... I don't see why your belief is justified based on a small sample and no analysis. Just because a function is bounded over a small range doesn't mean it...
Paul Leyland
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Jan 3, 2003
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10621
It was actually a fish for some voluntary labour. Pari chokes on primes>1000000, and I have no other means of performing such high powers tests that would be...
Jon Perry
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Jan 3, 2003
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10622
Has anyone heard of any conjectures similar to the following ones I have come up with? Conjecture: For real x>1 the smallest n such that there's always a prime...
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Jan 3, 2003
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10623
... Use 'calc' instead. Or bc. Or the other 'calc'. Or use gp and use 'p=nextprime(p+1)' rather than 'forprime(p='. ... One of (p-1) and (p+1) is divisible by...
Phil Carmody
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Jan 3, 2003
9:14 pm
10624
Jon Perry mistakenly claimed that ... Invoke it with -p10000000 to precompute primes to 10M. Limit is about 430M, as I recall, but then you need to allocate...
David Broadhurst <d.b...
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Jan 3, 2003
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10625
... .......................? No. p=3 gives 1/2 and p=2 gives 2/3 which is maximal, for prime p....
David Broadhurst <d.b...
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Jan 3, 2003
9:36 pm
10626
I am doing some timing tests in Maple in order to hunt down some bugs in its large-integer computation. It would be useful if I had primes close to 2^(2^n)...
Carl Devore
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Jan 3, 2003
9:49 pm
10627
I'm sure this must fall down - can someone confirm pointing out where? Cheers, David All primes of the form 4n+1 are the sum of two squares For every odd...
David Litchfield
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Jan 3, 2003
10:09 pm
10628
... bugs in ... close ... found ... primes. ... running PFGW -f ABC2file 2^(2^14)+2775 is 2-PRP! (1.480000 seconds) 2^(2^13)+897 is 2-PRP! (0.280000 seconds) ...
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Jan 3, 2003
10:28 pm
10629
... I don't know any list which goes up to such high powers of 2. Heheh, 2^(2^9) I could give you a vast number of examples for. You could generate PRPs using...
Phil Carmody
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