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arxiv: 1005.1967 · v1 · pith:6MZPY4XPnew · submitted 2010-05-11 · 🧮 math.NT · cs.DM

The great trinomial hunt

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We describe a search for primitive trinomials of high degree and its interaction with the Great Internet Mersenne prime search (GIMPS). The search is complete for trinomials whose degree is the exponent of a Mersenne prime, for all 47 currently known Mersenne primes.

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