in reply to Re^2: Simple primality testing
in thread Simple primality testing

Actually since these are signed longs it only goes up to 2^31-1, which is a prime, a Mersenne Prime actually. (For those that missed this bit, a Mersenne prime is any prime expressable in the form 2^N-1.)

I dont know if I'm the only one that finds it interesting that the highest number you can represent with a long is a prime, but I do. :-)

Now if only they would use questions like this on pub-quizzes. :-)

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Re^4: Simple primality testing
by hsmyers (Canon) on Nov 26, 2005 at 15:39 UTC
    Pub quizzes would probably prefer 'prime' in reference to beef rather than integers.

    --hsm

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