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Seventeen or Bust Nixes Three Sierpinski Candidates

Posted by timothy on from the barely-legal dept.

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!"

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  1. More information on the Sierpinksi problem by cyberlemoor · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..can be found here (a slightly more detailed explanation than the one at the link the author gives).