The great trinomial hunt
Number Theory
2011-04-07 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1005.1967,
title = {The great trinomial hunt},
author = {Richard P. Brent and Paul Zimmermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1967},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages. For further details see http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~brent/pub/pub235.html