[net.math] Complete factorization of M251

ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (03/22/84)

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