Monday, July 16, 2018

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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