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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Complete factorization of M251
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 11:38:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 11:38:08 1984
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Following a 32-hour computation by James Davis and Diane Holdridge on the Cray
at Sandia National Laboratories, the April issue of "Science 84" has printed:

	Now it can be told.

	2^251 - 1 = 503 x 54,217 x 178,230,287,214,063,289,511
		x 61,676,882,198,695,257,501,367
		x 12,070,396,178,249,893,039,969,681