From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 06:15:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: 2^1,257,787-1
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At 4:54 PM 9/4/96, John F. Fricker wrote:
>Ok so maybe here in Organ we are a little behind the times but I just heard
>about this 378,632 digit prime. Grab your HP11C's and crank out
>2^1,257,787-1 courtesy of David Slowinski at Cray.

The news sites on the Web I looked at had the announcement, but not the number.

Thanks. I've already modified my .sig.

--Tim May


We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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