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The Prime Glossary: law of small numbers
In his article [Guy88], Guy restated his law is several other forms:
You can't tell by looking [at a few examples].
Superficial similarities spawn spurious statements.
Capricious coincidences cause careless conjectures.
Early exceptions eclipse eventual essentials.
Initial irregularities inhibit incisive intuition. -
Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists
Enter George Woltman, an excellent programmer and organizer. Starting in late 1995 he gathered up the disparate databases and combined them into one. Then he placed this database, and a free, highly optimized program for search for Mersennes onto the web. This began GIMPS (the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) which: has now found the largest known Mersennes, has scanned all of the regions left unexplored between the previous record primes, combines the efforts of dozens of experts and thousands of amateurs, and which offers free software for most computer platforms.
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