Timeline for Is the new method used by the GIMPS project applicable to non-Mersenne primes?
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| Dec 7 at 12:43 | comment | added | Gadi A | It seems I was mistaken and didn't read their site carefully enough. It seems they still use LL as the final test, and simply switched to Fermat-with-proofs for the initial screening mersenne.org/various/math.php#prp | |
| Dec 7 at 8:21 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Any documentation on GIMPS abandoning Lucas-Lehmer in favor of Fermat? The link makes no mention of GIMPS nor Lucas-Lehmer nor Fermat nor Mersenne. | |
| Dec 7 at 7:23 | history | asked | Gadi A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |