The probability of that actually being cool is 2^74,207,281-1 to one against.sparky wrote:Yep, and that's cool but not Mersenne Prime cool. ;)Zippy wrote:It's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.
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Well, a power of 2 can't be a prime number anyway.sparky wrote:I geeked out about math with this one, but alas it's not a Mersenne prime.True_Avery wrote:The probably of this not happening already are 2^276709 to 1.
(216,091 is though, that's the closest one)
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But a power of two minus one can be, and sometimes is. Look up the jargon.
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I know what a Mersenne prime is. I was just being overly specific. 
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But yet you managed to beat the odds.True_Avery wrote:The probability of that actually being cool is 2^74,207,281-1 to one against.sparky wrote:Yep, and that's cool but not Mersenne Prime cool. ;)Zippy wrote:It's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.
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Re: 2016-01-08 But no peeking now
True_Avery wrote:The probability of that actually being cool is 2^74,207,281-1 to one against.sparky wrote:Yep, and that's cool but not Mersenne Prime cool. ;)Zippy wrote:It's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.
Never tell me the odds.
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