Prime Time....
Simon Spero
ses at tipper.oit.unc.edu
Sat Jan 27 11:58:03 PST 1996
Something I ran across in an old book on number theory
In 1953 D.H.Lhmer used the SWAC calculator to check for Mersenne primes
(2^n-1). The largest one found was n=2281 - the runtime was 66 minutes.
Anybody with access to one of the new Cray fish-tanks want to get a
datapoint for the closest machine in 96 so we can check on how well
Moore's law worked?
Simon // Suddenly my Powerbook 140 seems fast again
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