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A quick discussion of Mersenne Numbers
I wake of the latest find announcement, some people maybe wondering what the
heck is this?!!
A mercenne number is of the type:
M(p) = 2**p -1 results in a prime when p is a prime.
Hopefully this will lead the way to see the pattern of prime numbers and
being able to compute prime numbers in a far more efficient manner (after all
a function that when given a prime number results in a prime number would be
quite a kicker now wouldn't it!)
The other Mersenne primes include:
2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,127,61,89, and 107.
The numbers 67 and 257 are not primes....
Have fun in them prime number databases....