nuutti
12-10-2002, 02:00 PM
This is from project main page (http://www.seventeenorbust.com/, relatively bottom):
John Selfridge proved, 40 years ago, that k = 78,557 is a Sierpinski number. Most number theorists believe that this is the smallest, but it hasn't yet been proven. In order to prove it, we have to show that every single k less than 78,557 is not a Sierpinski number, and to do that, we have to find some n that makes k * 2^n + 1 prime. When Seventeen or Bust was started, this had already been done for all but 17 values of k; hence the name of the project. After 8 months of computation, we have eliminated 4 multipliers: four down, thirteen to go.
So this text claims that we have removed four multiplers, where is official release or is this a typo ?
Yours,
Nuutti
John Selfridge proved, 40 years ago, that k = 78,557 is a Sierpinski number. Most number theorists believe that this is the smallest, but it hasn't yet been proven. In order to prove it, we have to show that every single k less than 78,557 is not a Sierpinski number, and to do that, we have to find some n that makes k * 2^n + 1 prime. When Seventeen or Bust was started, this had already been done for all but 17 values of k; hence the name of the project. After 8 months of computation, we have eliminated 4 multipliers: four down, thirteen to go.
So this text claims that we have removed four multiplers, where is official release or is this a typo ?
Yours,
Nuutti