Install Prime95 and join the search and discover one of the Mersenne prime numbers. Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself....
Prime numbers have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians. An integer greater than one is called a prime number if its only divisors are one and itself. The first prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. For example, the number 10 is not...
This program is used to find Mersenne Prime numbers. See http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml for a good description of Mersenne primes. Mersenne numbers can be proved composite (not prime) by either finding a factor or by running a...