From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 03:18:51 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> If they think about 2^16 - 1, then they discover just
> as we do that it's prime.
That can't be right. (65536 - 1) ends in 5. A quick check shows that 65535
== 3 * 5 * 17 * 257.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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