RE: extropian almost perfect odd number team captures world record

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 10:01:37 MDT


Wei Dai writes

> The first prime after 1493986278130039 is 1493986278130109.

I understand how you got that; I've seen a number of programs
that return "the next largest prime".

> On the other hand, consider the product of {3, 5, 7, 11, 389, 29959,
> 128194589, 566684450325197, 29753376105337343078941364947,
> 30082232218581187462432471034748868284388270918928732239}.
> This number has a goodness ratio of about 1.24E-110.

How did you find that!?!?

> BTW, I missed the start of this thread. What was the point of finding
> almost perfect odd numbers again?

What is the point of finding Mersenne primes? Or odd perfect
numbers themselves?

Lee



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