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Re:All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once by blintz on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:46PM (#25311203)
Yeah, sorry, there are extra steps here. If n= 43112609 and you have some 2n-bit number to reduce, you can split it into two n-bit words and simply add the words together, since 1 = 2^n (mod 2^n - 1). You can do this very quickly (ie you can add an arbitrary number of 2n -bit values together with only a small number of adds and shifts as overhead).
Re:All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once by mlyle on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:50PM (#25311234)
Yah-- as mentioned-- just like we can find the residue mod 9 by adding digits up in base 10.

There's notably also the all 1's case to deal with as an exception.