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13460 eharsh82 Send Email Sep 4, 2003
1:01 am
I expect a prime for the + series under 35000 and for the - series under 30000 Harsh Aggarwal ... being prime ... of these ... only an ... +log(2)) ... ...
13459 Roger Bagula
rlbagulatftn Send Email
Sep 3, 2003
9:40 pm
I have been working in complex dynamics for years and have done recent work in minimal surfaces and constant mean curvature surfaces. It never occurred to me...
13458 mikeoakes2@...
mikeoakes2 Send Email
Sep 3, 2003
8:47 pm
How many primes N=2*a^a+-1 can we expect for X_0 <= a <= X? If N was a "typical" integer of that size, the probability of its being prime would be 1/log(N), by...
13457 Steven Harvey
harvey563 Send Email
Sep 3, 2003
3:16 pm
None of these are new, but it is nice to have confirmation of these numbers. I have noted that 84*45^84+/-1 is twin in the list maintained at ...
13456 mikeoakes2@...
mikeoakes2 Send Email
Sep 3, 2003
8:06 am
... As part of my investigation of the factor structure of these numbers, I have run PFGW with "-d -f200" on all values of a <= 5000, for both forms, which ...
13455 dibo12fr Send Email Sep 3, 2003
7:34 am
A few months ago, I started to search for twin primes that would be both generalized Cullen and generalized Woodall numbers. This means n*a^n+1 and n*a^n-1. ...
13454 Nathan Russell
pakaran42 Send Email
Sep 3, 2003
1:02 am
Dr. Caldwell and myself are beginning to rearrange the files area. I at least plan to think over a few things and do more tomorrow. Feel free to post or email...
13453 Jens Kruse Andersen
jkand71 Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
9:12 pm
Torbjörn Alm has found the 3 largest known CPAP-7 (7 consecutive primes in arithmetic progression): a*460# + x + 210n, n=0..6 (201 digits) for a =...
13452 Chris Caldwell
primemogul Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
2:41 pm
Please excuse this slow response, I have been out of town for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. I hate to add to the success of Jon's latest troll but I...
13451 Jack Brennen
jbrennen Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
1:22 pm
... Yes, it's almost certainly a waste of time, and at least for k=37, there is likely no finite covering set....
13450 Andy Swallow
umistphd2003 Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
1:20 pm
... But you must be more specific. How close is 'very close'? To make this statement even vaguely acceptable, you'd have to look at a hell of a lot more primes...
13449 w_sindelar@... Send Email Sep 2, 2003
12:55 pm
In what follows, I use the term "consecutive triad sums". Here's what I mean: Take any "X" distinct integers "N" and arrange them in ascending numerical order...
13448 mad37wriggle Send Email Sep 2, 2003
10:17 am
If there is a web page somewhere dealing with exactly this then I would appreciate it if someone would point me in its direction... Let k be a positive odd...
13447 navid_altaf Send Email Sep 2, 2003
10:15 am
Firstly,another thing I've realized,I never introduced myself to the group. For what its worth,I work in the Medical Physics Dept.@Guy's Hospital,London. My...
13446 mikeoakes2@...
mikeoakes2 Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
8:25 am
... The "how long does it take" heading on that page says:- ... Remember: this is not true for the larger values of "a", as each test takes time proportional...
13445 Nathan Russell
pakaran42 Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
2:02 am
--On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:05 AM +0000 Paul Underwood ... However, it is much faster on numbers even a little smaller - think days for a 3000 digit...
13444 Paul Underwood
paulunderwooduk Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
1:06 am
... best ... guide ... please ... For a general purpose proving algorithm see: http://www.ellipsa.net/ this program will take several months to prove a number...
13443 Jud McCranie
judmccr Send Email
Sep 2, 2003
12:32 am
... Here's a good link: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/prove/index.html ... http://www.mersenne.org/ ... Yes - Proth primes. The test for Proth primes is...
13442 ashok_iiit Send Email Sep 2, 2003
12:12 am
Hi, I am new to the prime numbers. Does anyone know what is the best deterministic algorithm that says if a number is prime. If one can guide to me with a link...
13441 Jose Ramón Brox
ambroxius Send Email
Sep 1, 2003
9:31 pm
I have a thumb rule that has never failed to date. It is to simple but is good to avoid many mistaken basic research. "No formula or algorithm expressed with a...
13440 Jose Ramón Brox
ambroxius Send Email
Sep 1, 2003
9:21 pm
You have X*Y possible cases, where X is the range for the x and Y the range for the y. Let's call T to the favorable cases (number of primes discovered within...
13439 Paul Underwood
paulunderwooduk Send Email
Sep 1, 2003
9:18 pm
... available ... The look of your pages look familiar; lol. I got my colours from mersenneforum.org I use a yahoo database to store my table; then export it;...
13438 primenumbers@yahoogro... Send Email Sep 1, 2003
9:05 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the primenumbers group. File : /2*a^a+-1...
13437 eharsh82 Send Email Sep 1, 2003
9:01 pm
HI, I am starting a new distributed computing project which is available at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/primenumbers/files/2*a^a+-1 prime search/index.htm ...
13436 Mark Underwood
marku606 Send Email
Sep 1, 2003
7:44 pm
That's OK Navid, many of us have been there! We get so focused and narrowed in on something that we loose sight of the obvious. Now that I'm typing, I must say...
13435 navid_altaf Send Email Sep 1, 2003
4:15 pm
Oh dear. Its finally dawned on me I'm just stating the obvious by definition. Sorry. I'm going to try to stop thinking about prime nos for some time (I can...
13434 Andy Swallow
umistphd2003 Send Email
Sep 1, 2003
12:58 pm
... Umm well ok. Same response. What about 539? Or 275? Or 325? Or 455? Or 357? And so on, and so on.... Odd numbers are: - Divisible by one of 3,5 or 7, or -...
13433 navid_altaf Send Email Sep 1, 2003
12:34 pm
Sorry folks, obvious error in my previous message. Not quite with it today. Take 2: An observation I made suggests that ODD composite nos can be described in...
13432 Andy Swallow
umistphd2003 Send Email
Sep 1, 2003
11:30 am
... Are you being serious? What do you mean? What about 225? Have you thought about this at all? So once you get past 121, there are no numbers divisible by 7...
13431 navid_altaf Send Email Sep 1, 2003
11:04 am
An observation I made (checked for the range 3-10000)suggests that ODD composite nos can be described as follows: - composite(odd)< 121 : divisible by 3,5 or 7...
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