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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

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359 points sdsykes | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.687s | source
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Eliezer ◴[19 Oct 24 04:02 UTC] No.41885559[source]▶
lol, like the government doesn't have 3 more Mersennes they keep secret so they can verify potential First Contact situations
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1. Jerrrrrrry ◴[19 Oct 24 05:19 UTC] No.41885806[source]▶
the idea of a deep-nation-state-cold-war psyop campaign bluffing and escalating math proofs is so goddamn hilarious, apt, and ironic it would be almost better than the mistake of pissing off the Aliens by offending them with math homework.

"Shizuo Kakutani joked that the problem [Collatz conjecture] was a Cold War invention of the Russians meant to slow the progress of mathematics in the West."