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).
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