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Re:2^74207281-1 is Prime by spacehome on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:17AM (#10936356)
If you don't care about computation time, then why stop there?

You can encode the Mth Mersenne with the integer M.

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Re:2^74207281-1 is Prime by hinkley on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:55PM (#10940399)
But then I have to keep patching the code every time a new one comes out. Too hard!
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Re:2^74207281-1 is Prime by spacehome on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:45PM (#10943221)
You don't. You can write a program that converts between m and M_m. It just takes a long time to convert.
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