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Mersenne Primes

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Added: Sun Oct 12 06:19:42 -0600 2003Views: 17,291
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A Mersenne prime is a prime number of the form 2p – 1. For this number to be prime p itself must be prime. There are 38 known Mersenne primes, the largest being the number 26972593- 1 (as at 6th February 2000).


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