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Peterson85

I. Peterson, "Prime time for supercomputers," Science News, 128 (1985) 199.

Peterson88

I. Peterson, "Priming for a lucky strike," Science News, 133 (1988) 85.

Peterson92

I. Peterson, "Striking paydirt in prime-number terrain," Science News, 141:14 (1992) 213. [Discusses the discovery of the Mersenne prime 2⁷⁵⁶⁸³⁹ -1]

Peterson93

I. Peterson, "Dubner's primes," Science News, 144:21 (1993) 331. [Discusses the Dubner Cruncher [DD85] and a few of Dubner's record primes.]

Peterson2000

I. Peterson, "Prime proof zeros in on crucial numbers," Science News, 158 (December 2000) 357.  Short note that Miailescu showed solutions to Catalan's are Wierferich double primes.