Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Complete factorization of M251 Message-ID: <799@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 11:38:08 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.799 Posted: Thu Mar 22 11:38:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 18:57:13 EST Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 8 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