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  • I want my blog to appear in 4 or 5 places so different people in different commmunities will read it. reply mersenne

    Spokeo Aggregates Social Networks And Blogs Natali Del Conte 2005

  • April 17, 2009 the search for mersenne primes helps mathematicians harness personal computers around the world to search for really large prime numbers

    clusterflock 2009

  • A nice feature of the PRNG in the statistics library is that it has a cleaner interface than mersenne-random.

    Planet Haskell 2009

  • As the numbers indicate, the MWC256 implementation in the statistics library is up to 3 times faster than the mersenne-random library, and often faster than the C code you'd expect to encounter in practice.

    Planet Haskell 2009

  • Photography and Culture Cross-Pollination mersenne The lost art of reading -- latimes. com

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • GIMPS harnesses the power of thousands of small computers like yours to search for these "needles in a haystack". www. mersenne.org as of 9 / 11 / 08.

    Planet Sun bm_seer 2008

  • The chance of finding a mersenne prime is pretty low, and takes about 2 months on a reasonably decent processor running 24 / 7 to confirm a single number.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2008

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  • mersenne numbers are the series of numbers which are one less than a power of 2. Mersenne was a 17 cent mathematician monk. Mersenne primes are the subset of mersenne numbers which are prime - the first few being 3, 7, 31, 127 ... 47 of them have been discovered but it may be that there are an infinite number.

    January 9, 2013