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by ted_dunning 454 days ago
You only need to check enough digits to find an odd one. An odd digit appears in the low order (< 46 up to a high level) digits for the first quadrillion cases so you only need to compute 2^n mod 10^d where d is big enough to be safe. I used d=60 in my computations to take this to 10^15 candidates (with no additional terms found).