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The new Mersenne prime...


From: Marius Vollmer
Subject: The new Mersenne prime...
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:44:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

    guile> (define m43 (1- (expt 2 30402457)))
    guile> (integer-length m43)
    30402457
    guile> (remainder m43 8352716958173659)
    2698619340888656
    guile> (number->string m43 16)
    "fffff....."
    guile> m43
    Segmentation fault

So we can handle numbers like that, but we can't print them in
decimal...

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GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3  331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405




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