Fermat factors (was: Apology; unsubscribe)

[Jud McCranie]

At 12:50 PM 1/14/00 +0100, Antreas P. Hatzipolakis wrote:

 >Is the prime at the end of Jud's message a factor of a Fermat number?

| 137*2^197783+1 is prime!  (59,541 digits, 11/11/99)    |

>I didn't find it in the Fermat factors page at:

I used the Proth program to find it.  It checks such primes to see if they 
are factors of Fermat numbers, and this one isn't.

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|                  Jud McCranie                          |
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| 137*2^197783+1 is prime!  (59,541 digits, 11/11/99)    |
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