Re: New prime

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:16:48 +0200


>You may not know, but Slowinski and Gage's behavior has caused
>certain accusations and ill feelings in the prime number community.

Yah, I know. He claims that it is in the commercial interest of Cray.
Of course Cray no longer exists except as a division of SGI...

>They have organized a grass roots team of 300-500 people on the
>Internet who are using PC's to systematically search for the 33rd
>Mersenne prime.

I'm one of them, but we were looking for the 34th (now for the 35th).

>Obligatory FoRK required childish ego boasting:
>[...]
>And David Slowinski has posted on this
>list (which boosts my ego to new FoRK'ish level heights).

He emailed me a few times yesterday... How's that for poker?
;)

R-dude.
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