Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Computing gcd of very large numbers with powers

How to calculate gcd of 5^{2^{303} - 1} - 1 and 5^{2^{309} - 1} - 1?



I stumbled upon this interesting problem and tried elementary algebraic simplification and manipulation. But found no success.

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