From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 09:26:39 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>If there are people living in M31 (Andromeda), and they
>ever think about triangles, then they quickly arrive at
>exactly the same information that we have, and come to
>learn exactly those very same properties.
>
>If they think about 2^16 - 1, then they discover just
>as we do that it's prime.
>
Lee, if the Andromedans think 2^16-1 is prime, Im not going
to bother going there. I would get into too many pointless
arguments.
65535 = 3 * 5 * 17 * 257
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