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<DIV>From the comment in A038093, I would say it's > 2^2^2^65536. That definitely leaves the other proposed candidates behind.</DIV>
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<DIV>Franklin T. Adams-Watters<BR> </DIV> <BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Christian G. Bower <A href="mailto:bowerc@usa.net">bowerc@usa.net</A><BR><BR>
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<DIV class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_f2465cd1-0d18-4cba-b2ea-7d7546980fab><PRE><TT>I can do better than that one with A038087.
I never figured out how many terms are in it, but the sum of the terms is
2^2^2^2^65536
A038084 has 3,211,265 terms.
A038085 has too many terms to write out the value.
A038086 and A038087 each go up from there.
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From: zak seidov <<A href="mailto:zakseidov%40yahoo.com">zakseidov@yahoo.com</A>>
To: <A href="mailto:seqfan%40ext.jussieu.fr">seqfan@ext.jussieu.fr</A>
Subject: Re: Longest finite sequence in OEIS
> Or see:
> A117853 Decimal expansion of 2^30402457-1.
> COMMENT The decimal expansion of 2^30402457-1,
> presently the 43rd known mersenne prime. Sequence ends
> after 9,152,052 terms
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> --- David Wasserman <<A href="mailto:dwasserm%40earthlink.com">dwasserm@earthlink.com</A>> wrote:
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> > It might be A102850, which has 5,191,475 terms.
> >
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