Mersenne primes, was: factor



Am Mittwoch 14 Februar 2007 23:52 schrieben Sie:
> Yes, Ralf,
>
> Maxima isn't the right tool for hunting big Mersenne primes.

Dear Volker,

many thanks for your nice reply. I do know that there are other projects 
to hunt Mersennes, I rather wanted to use my first chance to actually 
print a huge Mersenne with all its digits. It may make no sense, but 
yet it was a dream of mine like 22 years ago.

Your function works fine, now I wonder how I can reuse it (and if I may 
publish it under a free license, stating you as author).

I learn a lot from this (and also remember how odd lisp is :P)

Kind regards
Ralf.

P.S.: My next project is to invert a function that is defined by an 
infinite recursion. I think I need some patience using the solve 
operation to find anything like ZETA-1: x -> y with ZETA(y) = x