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• What use are prime numbers anyway?
  ==So it would seem to be a fair question "What use are prime numbers?"== ...e would not exist as we know it, and all of this security depends on prime numbers.
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• Strong law of small numbers
  ...athematician]] Richard K. Guy published a paper ''"The Strong Law of Small Numbers"''. In it he states, :"There aren't enough small numbers to meet the many demands made of them."
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• Williams prime
  ...both signs, there're four different types of numbers similiar to Williams numbers.
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• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
  ...be downloaded from the Internet, in order to search for [[Mersenne prime]] numbers. ...an, who was born in 1588. Mersenne investigated a particular type of prime numbers: 2^p - 1, in which ''p'' is an ordinary [[prime]].
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• List of known Mersenne primes
  *[https://www.mersenne.org/primes/ List of known Mersenne prime numbers] at Mersenne.org *[http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml prime Mersenne Numbers - History, Theorems and Lists] Explanation
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• Mersenne prime
  ...Mersenne number]]s (not necessarily primes, but candidates for primes) are numbers that are one less than a power of two; hence, ...umber|even]] perfect numbers have this form. No [[odd number|odd]] perfect numbers are known, and it is suspected that none exists.
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• Mersenne number
  ==Properties of Mersenne numbers== Mersenne numbers share several properties:
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• Leonhard Euler
  ...term 'function' in this context. He is the only mathematician to have two numbers named after him.
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• Pierre de Fermat
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• Landon Curt Noll
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• George Woltman
  ...ing project|distributed computing project]] researching [[Mersenne prime]] numbers using his software [[Prime95]] and [[Prime95|MPrime]]. He graduated from th
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• Fermat number
  where {{Vn}} is a [[non-negative]] [[integer]]. The first eight Fermat numbers are (see {{OEIS|l|A000215}}): ...e found at [http://www.prothsearch.com/fermat.html Prime Factors of Fermat Numbers]
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• Derrick Henry Lehmer
  ...stencils. In the days before computers [[Factorization|factorising]] large numbers was a laborious task and many methods had been tried to make it easier. [[F ...ciently influential that the terms in this sequence are now called 'Lehmer Numbers'. He also clarified and extended Lucas' use of the Fermat congruence in pri
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• Megaprime
  ...are infinitely primes. In fact, since there are only finitely many natural numbers with less than {{Num|1000000}} digits, "nearly all" primes are megaprimes.
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• Gigaprime
  ...are infinitely primes. In fact, since there are only finitely many natural numbers with less than {{Num|1000000000}} digits, "nearly all" primes are gigaprime
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• Cunningham project
  ...the supply of numbers to be factored is low, the project starts factoring numbers with higher exponents, tracking the advances in factorization algorithms an For Mersenne numbers of the form <math>2^n-1</math>, even this trivial factor is not possible fo
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• 2 Minus Tables
  ==Factorizations Of Cunningham Numbers C^-(2,n) = 2ⁿ - 1==
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• Lucas-Lehmer test
  ...an [[Édouard Lucas]] (1842 - 91) developed an entirely new way of proving numbers prime without attempting to find all of their factors. Instead, he showed t ...ger number, the Lucas-Lehmer number, is calculated as one in a sequence of numbers where each number is the previous number squared, minus 2. So that where S<
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• Édouard Lucas
  ...] is named after him. He devised a new method for testing the primality of numbers that did not require finding all of their factors. In 1930, [[Derrick Henry
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• Edson Smith
  ...e people, sort of a passion. There's really no guarantee that any of these numbers exist. We don't know they're there until we find them. So it's exciting to
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• Digit
  ...r "7") used in numerals (combinations of symbols, e.g. "37"), to represent numbers, ([[integer]]s or [[real number]]s) in positional numeral systems. The name
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• Decimal
  ...d the radix point) that is sometimes used to separate the positions of the numbers in this system. This is the common every-day numbering system that people u ...han ten distinct values (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) to represent any numbers, no matter how large. These digits are often used with a decimal separator
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