[48285] in Cypherpunks
Prime Time....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Sat Jan 27 14:36:38 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:36:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601252307.QAA15015@usr5.primenet.com>
Something I ran across in an old book on number theory
In 1953 D.H.Lhmer used the SWAC calculator to check for Mersenne primes
(2^n-1). The largest one found was n=2281 - the runtime was 66 minutes.
Anybody with access to one of the new Cray fish-tanks want to get a
datapoint for the closest machine in 96 so we can check on how well
Moore's law worked?
Simon // Suddenly my Powerbook 140 seems fast again
