Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Dec 14 02:08:24 CST 2005
Hi Mark and Stuart Mark, here's one example: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55922.html Stuart, you are killing Susan with those links! /gustav >>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 13-12-2005 23:18:37 >>> On 13 Dec 2005 at 21:54, Mark A Matte wrote: > Gustav, > > I still don't know why this intrigues me...but I found away around the > 2,147,483,647 problem I was having...I got rid of the MOD function, just > used division instead, and used Instr(1,RemainderTest,".") to see if the > number had a decimal. > > Not sure what I will do with this new knowledge...but I now know alot of > large Prime numbers. Now that I have a db that will tell me if any number is > prime...any suggestions, if any, of what to do with it? > Any number? In that case Find the 43rd Mersenne Prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm Then go for the $10,000 prize for finding the first 10 million digit prime number. http://www.eff.org/awards/coop.php -- Stuart