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Mersenne Primes Proven Composites?

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Turing's Worst Nightmare

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May 16, 2010, 1:43:05 AM5/16/10
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An amateur mathematician discovered in early 2010 that Mersenne
N86,243 is (divisible by 1,627,710,365,249) and N1,398,269.

[[Harry Nelson|Nelson]] & [[David Slowinski|Slowinski]] originally
discovered the number and announced it was prime on September 25,
1982.

Mensanator

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May 16, 2010, 12:40:23 PM5/16/10
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On May 16, 12:43 am, "Turing's Worst Nightmare"

<marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An amateur mathematician discovered in early 2010 that Mersenne
> N86,243  is (divisible by 1,627,710,365,249) and N1,398,269.

Liar.

adamk

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May 16, 2010, 5:58:57 PM5/16/10
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> On May 16, 12:43 am, "Turing's Worst Nightmare"
> <marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > An amateur mathematician discovered in early 2010
> that Mersenne
> > N86,243  is (divisible by 1,627,710,365,249) and
> N1,398,269.
>
> Liar.
>
Wow. Is this a surprise to you.?

Glenn

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May 16, 2010, 11:42:17 PM5/16/10
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On May 15, 10:43 pm, "Turing's Worst Nightmare"

<marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An amateur mathematician discovered in early 2010 that Mersenne
> N86,243  is (divisible by 1,627,710,365,249) and N1,398,269.
>
Actually, it is 2^86243 + 1 that is divisible by 1,627,710,365,249 and
not 2^86243 - 1.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mersenne_prime#A_Recently_Disproven_Mersenne_Prime

J. Clarke

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May 17, 2010, 6:11:59 PM5/17/10
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On 5/16/2010 12:40 PM, Mensanator wrote:
> On May 16, 12:43 am, "Turing's Worst Nightmare"
> <marty.musa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> An amateur mathematician discovered in early 2010 that Mersenne
>> N86,243 is (divisible by 1,627,710,365,249) and N1,398,269.
>
> Liar.

In any case one wonders why he refers to prime_s_. Even if it were true
the only earth-shattering consequence would be that Slowinski would have
had to (if he was still using it) fix a bug in his computer program.

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