I can factor 2^74,207,281-1. Will that do. :-) I am reminded of Bill Gates' comment: "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:57 PM, rkg <rkg@ucalgary.ca> wrote:
The recent discovery of a new Mersenne prime reminds me of the imminent risk that I shall lose $20.00. Around my 80th birthday, when writing The Book of Numbers with John Conway, he guessed that no new Fermat number would be completely factored in the next 20 years. I bet him that one would.
So, in the next eight months, would someone please complete the factorization of a previously unfactored Fermat number? In an amazingly generously gesture, I offer to split the $20.00 with anyone who comes up with such a factorization! R.
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Robert Baillie wrote:
Thanks for the news!
According to http://www.mersenne.org/ GIMPS software also a flaw in Intel's latest Skylake CPUs.
Bob --- Ray Tayek wrote:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/01/20/0137259/new-mersenne-prime-discov...
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