Seventeen or Bust Nixes Three Sierpinski Candidates 19
Craigj0 writes "In just 8 days Seventeen or bust has removed three Sierpinski candidates after people have been trying for years. Seventeen or bust is a distributed attack on the Sierpinski problem. You can find the first two press releases here(1) and here(2), the third is still to come. More information about Sierpinski numbers can be found here. Finally they could always use some more people so join!"
More information on the Sierpinksi problem (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Can someone explain why this article is filtere (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How to prove this? (Score:3, Informative)
Here's some info [astate.edu], though the exact construction of the proof isn't give. Apparently, it's possible to prove that for any n, 78557*2^n+1 is divisible by one of a finite (and quite small) number of primes. As to how, ask the guy who proved it...