Ernst W. Mayer

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Proof-code(s):	EM, M1
E-mail address:	(e-mail address unpublished)
Username	Mayer	(entry created on 1/18/2000 18:50:53 UTC)
Database id:	67	(entry last modified on 5/11/2021 17:09:31 UTC)
Active primes:	This entry has no primes on the current list.
Total primes:	number ever on any list: 4 (unweighted total: 8)
Production score:	no primes, so no score for current list, total 28.5173

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Maintains a website with links to software and benchmarks for Mersenne testing freeware for non-Intel platforms. Author of Mlucas, currently the most popular Mersenne-testing code for non-x86.

In collaboration with Richard Crandall and Jason Papadopoulos, conducted a computational proof of the composite character of the twenty-fourth Fermat number (5050446 decimal digits).

Currently holds the record (jointly with F. Morain for the largest proven "hard" prime (not of a special form), the 2196-digit Mersenne cofactor (2^7331-1)/458072843161 .

Works for Adaptive Silicon Inc., a high-tech startup in Los Gatos, California, specializing in embeddable programmable logic.

In his spare time, enjoys sharing awful puns and select German Weissbier with Luke Welsh.

Surname: Mayer (used for alphabetizing and in codes).
Unverified primes are omitted from counts and lists until verification completed.

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