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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by carlob on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:01AM (#18739926)
Then it's probably in decimal form. The binary representation should compress much better :)
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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by paulddraper on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:39PM (#18741542)
Explanation: A Mersenne prime is (2^n)-1 so in binary that's n 1s.
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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by dvh on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:24AM (#18739973)
Any number N in base (N) is written as 1
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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by carlob on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:27AM (#18739987)
no it's 10
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Re:A New Largest-Known Prime Number by SomeHacker44 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:15PM (#18743699)
Typical programmer. Off by zero as always.
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