48th Mersenne prime found

Re:48th Mersenne prime found by sanxiyn on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:04AM (#5170936)

If we meet aliens, we should exchange Mersenne primes.

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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by yesbabyyes on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:40AM (#5171174)

To them, that would be like someone wants to exchange integers with us.

- Fifteen THOUSAND!

- Uuuh...

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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by gokhan on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:06AM (#5171347)

You assume that they will be advanced enough to come to us. What if we find them in Europa or Titan?

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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by yesbabyyes on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:38AM (#5171536)

Then we will probably not ask them to exchange Mersenne primes with us either. :-)

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Re:48th Mersenne prime found by gesman on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:43PM (#5172376)

...or claim that "my prime is bigger than yours" :)

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