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Mersenne Prime Discovery

I've come across another limitation of WordSmith Tools 4. It can't process large files. And what do you think is 'large' for WST4? Well... it can be a file as small as 9,35 MB depending on the type of data stored. While reading Wikipedia, I stumbled upon the GIMPS Project at http://www.mersenne.org/ and found their 44th Mersenne Prime discovery: http://www.mersenne.org/prime10.txt - a 9,808,358 digits long integer number. I wanted to see how the Wordlister of Tenka Text 0.1.3 performed with such a large single token and in fact I expected it to throw some sort of unexpected exception... to be continued