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Ruling out gaps in the list of Mersenne primes
( go to the article → https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/12/04/mersenne-gaps/ )
The largest known primes are Mersenne primes, in part because the Lucas-Lehmer algorithm makes it more efficient to test Mersenne numbers for primality than to test arbitrary numbers. These numbers have the form 2n – 1. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) announced today that they have tested whether 2n – 1 is prime […] The post Ruling out gaps in the list of Mersenne primes first appeared on John D. Cook.
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