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I recall a successful 'highest prime' search using a system that checked numbers of the form 2^n - 1 (or something like that)
by zipdog 14y ago
I recall a successful 'highest prime' search using a system that checked numbers of the form 2^n - 1 (or something like that)
- acoster 14y agoThose are called Mersenne Primes, and are in the form 2^p - 1, where p is a prime number.