C. Acknowledgements for the Third Edition.

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We wish to thank the following people who have contributed to the Third

Edition:

New factors of Fermat numbers and numbers in the main tables were discovered

by K. Aardal, W. Alford, G. Axelsson, R. Baillie, R. Ballinger, B. Beesley,

D. Bernstein, M. Bodschwinna, H. Boender, A. Bot, R. Brent, A. Brown, J. Buhler,

S. Cavallar, S. Contini, J. Cosgrave, R. Crandall, C. Curry, N. Daminelli, F. Damm,

V. Danilov, J. Davis, P. Demichel, K. Dilcher, B. Dodson, D. Doligez, H. Dubner,

L. Durman, S. Edick, R. Edwards, M. Elkenbracht-Huizing, A. Erdmann, W. Florek,

T. Forbes, J. Fougeron, J. Franke, Y. Gallot, P. Gaudry, J. Gilchrist, G. Gostin,

W. Grabysz, M. Gra_, T. Granlund, P. Grobstich, G. Gusev, R. Harley, F. Heider,

D. Holdridge, R. Horn, S. Huddleston, M. Hurter, C. Kerchner, Y. Kida, T. Kleinjung,

J. Klos, K. Koyama, A. Kruppa, H. Kuwakado, D. Leclair, J. Leherbauer,

A. Lenstra, R. Lercier, R. Lewis, P. Leyland, W. Lioen, S. Lodin, J. Loho, A. Lynch,

M. Mambo, M. Manasse, J. Marchand, E. Mayer, R. McIntosh, P. McLaughlin, Jr.,

J.-C. Meyrignac, N. Melo, D. Miller, P. Montgomery, F. Morain, D. Morenus,

A. Mu_ett, B. Murphy, P. Nicholson, T. Nohara, T. Nokelby, E. Okamoto, R. Peralta,

C. Pomerance, R. Prethaler, C. Putnam, M. Quercia, J. Rathert, J. Renze,

R. Robson, R. Ruby, D. Rusin, P. Samidoost, G. Sassoon, A. Schmidt, R. Silverman,

N. Smart, V. Stevens, H. Suyama, T. Szep, D. Takahashi, C. Tardif, T. Taura,

H. te Riele, Y. Torii, V. Trevisan, C. van Halewyn, R. Wackerbarth, G. Wambach,

S. Whitaker, M. Wiener, D. Winter, D. Wolf, G. Woltman, J. Young, J. Zayer,

P. Zimmermann, SSW, many volunteers who keep factoring programs running on

their workstations, and an anonymous factorer who calls himself \M. Mersenne".

The new results of the third edition required millions of hours of computer time.

We are grateful to the directors and sta_s of the following computer centers which

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provided this time: Convex Computer Corporation, NeXT Computer, Inc., the

National Center for Supercomputing Applications, JAIST, the Center for Cryptography,

Computer and Network Security at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,

Microsoft Research, Unisys (formerly System Development Corporation), UCLA

Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University Department of Mathematics,

Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory

in The Netherlands, the Universitat des Sarlandes, Germany, INRIA (Institut National

de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique), the Poznan Supercomputer

and Networking Centre, Medicis Polytechique, the High Performance Computer

Centre North, the Swedish Institute for Computer Science, the Maths Department

of the Stockholm University, Swox, Circus Ulfberg, the Astonomy Department of

Uppsala University, and Purdue University.

M. Senn and R. M. Jegadeesan wrote programs which formatted the tables in

this book.

SSW gratefully acknowledges the support of the Lilly Foundation and the

Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security in the

preparation of this edition and of the annual updates.

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