(M+2)1257787

Mersenneplustwo project news:
Following up the recent find of the 8-digit factor of (M+2)1257787 by random-based WEP (factorize3), I also confirmed this result with "sequential" WEP (factorize2).
The factor is found on the first attempted base after the factor of 3 comes out:
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[james@localhost wec]$ time ./factorize2.gmp4.2.1 -Pp1257787 -a0
a= 5031149 factor=3
a= 7546723 factor=20124593


real 16844m25.553s
user 15836m58.317s
sys 363m38.512s

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