If the result is prime, it's a Mersenne -- and there are only 43 of them. |
Maybe in years to come this will be an important discovery, or will lead to something that will be an important discovery. There are lots of situations in history where if someone didn't do something at a certain time maybe you wouldn't be as far along as you were today. |
We're super excited. We've been looking for such a number for a long time. |