The bad version of a good test
The Endeavour 2025-05-28
Summary:
Ever since 1952, the largest known primes have all had the form 2n − 1, with one exception in 1989. The reason the largest known primes have this form is that it is easier to test whether these numbers are prime than other numbers. A number of the form 2n − 1 is called a […]
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