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Fluctibus wrote a long reply, in which he called Mersenne an ignorant calumniator, and reiterated that alchymy was a profitable science, and the Rosicrucians worthy to be the regenerators of the world.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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For example, 127 is a Mersenne prime, click the word Mersenne to learn what a Mersenne prime is.
Archive 2009-04-20 Mr. Byrne 2009
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These gargantuan primes fall under a special category known as Mersenne primes, named for a
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Passwords are generated using a pseudorandom number generator called Mersenne twister, which is an advanced algorithm that creates high quality random numbers using a twisted generalized shift feedback register, and has a higher number of dimensions than linear congruential generators.
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Passwords are generated using a pseudorandom number generator called Mersenne twister, which is an advanced algorithm that creates high quality random numbers using a twisted generalized shift feedback register, and has a higher number of dimensions than linear congruential generators.
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Consider exponents such as Mersenne, Descartes,Ray, Burnett and Whiston (who lengthened the Day) Woodward,Patrick, Poole ( amost conservative puritan commentator) and lots in the 18th century.
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Five - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '47th Known Mersenne Prime Apparently Discovered, by Eric Weisstein'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Less than a year after the 45th and 46th known Mersenne primes were discovered, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project organizer George Woltman is reporting in a June 7 email to the GIMPS mailing list that a new Mersenne number has been flagged as prime and reported to the project\'s server.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 47th Known Mersenne Prime Apparently Discovered, by Eric Weisstein 2009
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GIMPS, developed by George Woltman, is a program developed to search for the next Mersenne prime number.
Archive 2009-04-10 Mr. Byrne 2009
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On my way to school this morning I heard a story on NPR about the search for the next Mersenne prime number.
Archive 2009-04-10 Mr. Byrne 2009
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Less than a year after the 45th and 46th known Mersenne primes were discovered, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project organizer George Woltman is reporting in a June 7 email to the GIMPS mailing list that a new Mersenne number has been flagged as prime and reported to the project's server.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 47th Known Mersenne Prime Apparently Discovered, by Eric Weisstein 2009
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