Iterated Mersenne primes
The Endeavour 2024-05-11
Summary:
A Mersenne number is a number of the form 2k − 1. A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number which is also a prime. It turns out that if 2k − 1 is prime then k must be prime, so Mersenne numbers have the form 2p − 1 is prime. What about the converse? If […]
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