RE: Why the interest in really big primes? Re: new confuser

From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 22:35:54 MDT

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    >> But if we transmit a long list of Mersenne primes, (the
    >> same in any base, in any corner of the universe) we
    >> demonstrate that not only are we a clever species, we have
    >> computer resources to simply waste on foolishness...

    >Ah the classic "we speak softly but carry a long list of
    >Mersenne primes" deterrent. Very cunning.

    Doh! The possible new Mersenne prime (number 40)
    reported a couple weeks ago turned out to be a
    computer error. }8-[ So we are still at 39 for now.
    Do let us hope that we discover no rapacious
    extraterrestrials with 40 Mersennes in the next few
    months, before we have a chance to arm ourselves.

    spike

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