OT-Governor General binary

[Mike]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> So it seems that if they picked a 33-bit palindrome, they had a 2972/65536
> change to get a prime one.  5% or so is a pretty good chance of doing
> that by accident.
>

I don't know whether to be amused by the likelihood that they stumbled
upon a binary palindromic prime number based purely on visual
aesthetics, or to be disappointed that a techie like the new G.G.
would leave such a detail to chance ;-)

Cheers,
Mike
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