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Re: The next exercise


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:34:41 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 4))))
>
> It's an arithmetic overflow error!
>
> But what does it express?
>
> Hint: Start with (** 2 10) ...

2^2^43 - 1, right?  What's it?  It's too large to be the largest known
prime number, or I calculated wrong.  I don't know.  Tell us.

Michael.



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