In honor of Andrew Wiles' proof of the theorem known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" stated 350 years ago—but unproven until this week (February, 1993). [Fermat's thoughts on primes did not fare so well, however. A prime number is an integer, which is evenly integer divisible only by itself and 1]
Took 26.562767 minutes to calculate using
Maple 4.0 on a 512-MW 4 CPU Cray 2...
David Slowinski - The 32nd Mersenne Prime
The 32nd Mersenne Prime
David Slowinski
Description
In honor of Andrew Wiles' proof of the theorem known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" stated 350 years ago—but unproven until this week (February, 1993). [Fermat's thoughts on primes did not fare so well, however. A prime number is an integer, which is evenly integer divisible only by itself and 1]
Took 26.562767 minutes to calculate using
Maple 4.0 on a 512-MW 4 CPU Cray 2