Illustration of the first 12 Mersenne Primes (last three partially obscured). Mersenne primes are numbers one less than powers of two, where the exponent also has to be a prime. Currently there 50 have been discovered, the last one in 2017. It is conjectured that there are an infinite number, but no formal proof has established this. Marin Mersenne was a French mathematician and thinker who lived from 1588 to 1648. | |
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