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I suggest that in addition to testing simplicity of zeta(3)/ pi**3, that you test zeta(3)/pi**2 and zeta(3)/pi**4. Kermit Rose...
1 Mar 16, 2011
1:11 pm

Kermit Rose
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I have obtained a curious aproximation to Apery constant Zeta(3)= 1.2020569031595942... (199/155)(16/165)^(3/2)Pi^3 Can someone test with a super computer...
9 Mar 16, 2011
10:31 am

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Hello all: My  ​​equivalence for twin primes has been posted today here:   http://www.primepuzzles.net/puzzles/puzz_580.htm   Sincerely   Sebastian...
1 Mar 12, 2011
6:30 pm

Sebastian Martin Ruiz
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I have finished up changes for PFGW 3.4.6. Here is a list of changes: 1) Use gwnum for POWMOD script function when numbers are larger than 650 bits. 2) Added...
1 Mar 8, 2011
1:38 pm

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Hello all: Let n and k positive integers k<n. Let P(i) the ith-prime number We have: P(n)-P(n-k)-(n-k)P(k)=0   IF AND ONLY IF    P(n) and P(k) are Twin...
5 Mar 5, 2011
3:19 pm

Sebastian Martin Ruiz
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http://perfectcypher.com/ vjl2 f55u euta haoz g62i hdyo crti as67 nz1y h42o kid3 x1ti xa7y sy7u pie3 biu3 s9e5 lh56 xa11 qii9 ta53 zm64 vj84 ck26 bd52 bz7t...
2 Mar 2, 2011
9:10 pm

Phil Carmody
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Dear primenumbers group members, If anybody might be interested in pursuing the question of whether there might be a message (an actual message) where I...
1 Mar 1, 2011
8:13 pm

James Merickel
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Hi, congratulations to Michael Herder and Prime Grid for finding the useful bi-megaprime 3*2^7033641+1 which has ‎2117338 digits and is ranked 14th...
1 Mar 1, 2011
10:06 am

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Let F(N) be the smallest number of operations required by any algorithm which employs only +, -, *, and /, starts out with 0 and 1, and computes a number N. ...
1 Feb 19, 2011
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Warning: This whole post, while I believe it is correct, quite likely is useless and stupid and of mere curiosity or recreational value. As you probably know,...
16 Feb 19, 2011
5:58 pm

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http://www.primefan.ru/stuff/primes/pi_1e16.zip (19 Mb) The archive contains the data file with 2-byte differences between the successive values of...
1 Feb 19, 2011
4:32 pm

Andrey Kulsha
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Dear Participants, I have made a personal indirect (through Martin Gelfand at Colorado State, who said I should get a job with IBM when I was in highschool...
1 Feb 19, 2011
9:41 am

James Merickel
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Hello all:   Consider:   EulerGamma=0.57721566490153286061   Zeta= Riemann Zeta Function   k=constant   We have   Limit a,b->infty  ...
2 Feb 19, 2011
8:29 am

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I have finished up changes for PFGW 3.4.5. Here is a list of changes: 1) Updated to gwnum v26.5 2) Fixed memory leaks in 64-bit builds 3) Fixed other known...
8 Feb 18, 2011
7:00 pm

mgrogue@...
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I only have access to things already downloaded to my computer, so if someone else is interested in verifying that the first 8082 digits of the exponential...
1 Feb 15, 2011
6:11 pm

James Merickel
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I have written a few algebraic factoring routines. They are intended to quickly factor numbers for which one factor is very close to an integer multiple of the...
5 Feb 15, 2011
2:22 am

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Dear members Thank you for your attention. I have worked on the Goldbach conjecture and I think to find its solution now.  I studied it using geometrical...
3 Feb 14, 2011
5:45 pm

Phil Carmody
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Leading digits of (first odd prime in) 2^(2^(2^(2^2)))....
2 Feb 13, 2011
4:27 am

James Merickel
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(3^5-1)/(3-1) = 11^2 and hence sqrt(Phi(5,3)) = 11 is an integer. Might there be another (n,b) integer pair, with n>2 and b>1, such that sqrt(Phi(n,b)) is an...
55 Feb 11, 2011
6:03 pm

djbroadhurst
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Just a heads up to anybody on these lists who might not have seen it... Feb. 19 is Southern California Number Theory Day at UC San Diego. ...
1 Feb 11, 2011
1:13 am

Jack Brennen
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Hi, congrats to the members of "Five or Bust - The Dual Sierpinski Problem" for their find: 2^9092392+40291, Paul...
2 Feb 9, 2011
4:10 pm

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(2^3)*(3^5)*(4^7)*(5^11)*(6^13)+1 and (2^3)*(3^5)*(4^7)*(5^11)*(6^13)*(7^17)*(8^19)*(9^23)*(10^29)*(11^31)*(12^37)*(13^41)+1 are prime. Tempted to submit to...
1 Feb 9, 2011
12:34 pm

James Merickel
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I don't know if this one's known. It seems likely it's been seen before. The smaller prime for the 71st prime gap of exactly 100 is the 966699th prime,...
1 Feb 9, 2011
12:34 am

James Merickel
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A115091 in the OEIS declares there are no primes 613<p<10^6 such that there is a k<p for which p^2|k!+1 and no p<10^8 with k<1201. Three PARI/GP windows are...
4 Feb 8, 2011
11:20 pm

Phil Carmody
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I've implemented the algebraic factoring routine for getting the algebraic factors of the difference of two powers, where one power is significantly larger...
45 Feb 8, 2011
4:56 am

djbroadhurst
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Hi. This is my first post here. I'm inquiring as to whether somebody might want to put a fair amount of power behind a search I'm doing. I have the first...
5 Feb 7, 2011
10:03 pm

Phil Carmody
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The final two primes of (record-setting) 101 consecutive, 35 below 56660000 and 66 above, with successive primes not having the same final digit as their...
3 Feb 6, 2011
3:52 am

Jens Kruse Andersen
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Lowerboundforprimes:   Can anyone verify this?   Let: F(n)=(Prime(n)+3*(-1)^((Prime(n)-1)/2))/4   G[n]=(Prime(n)+3*(-1)^((Prime(n)+1)/2))/4   For all k>=1...
1 Feb 5, 2011
11:57 pm

Sebastian Martin Ruiz
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I've solved David's algebraic factoring challenge. ... Special Algebraic factoring [174224571863520493293247799005065324265471L, ...
1 Feb 5, 2011
6:49 pm

Kermit Rose
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Let n be an integer greater than 1, and p be a positive integer. We will call p a prime number with respect to multiplication modulo n if p<n and, whenever x...
7 Feb 4, 2011
6:52 pm

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