Re: Misprint
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- Subject: [mg111065] Re: Misprint
- From: Ken Levasseur <klevasseur at mac.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:08:54 -0400 (EDT)
Alexey You added a 2 to the base of the expression Ken Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:05 AM, Alexey <lehin.p at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > It seems that there is a misprint on the page > http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/usersanduses/mersenne.html > We read that "In June 1999 an international group of mathematicians, > computer scientists, and hobbyists <...> discovered that 2^6972593-1 > is > prime." But it is not true: > In[3]:= PrimeQ[2^26972593 - 1] > Out[3]= False >