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Re:2^74207281-1 is Prime by Houshalter on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:29PM (#10935882)
That would take ages to compute. Printing one is faster. And might produce the smallest file size if it's done in assembly.
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Re:2^74207281-1 is Prime by elenorelange on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:07AM (#10936333)
but the metric was the most concise way to store the data
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