1 day ago · The new prime is only the 52nd known Mersenne prime ever discovered. Mersenne primes were named for the French monk Marin Mersenne, who studied these numbers more …

18 hours ago · List of all known Mersenne prime numbers along with the discoverer's name, dates of discovery and the method used to prove its primality.

Dec 14, 2025 · A Mersenne prime is a prime number of the form 2 P -1. The first Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, and 127 corresponding to P = 2, 3, 5, and 7 respectively. There are only …

Oct 21, 2024 · A Mersenne prime is a prime number of the form 2 P -1. The first Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, and 127 corresponding to P = 2, 3, 5, and 7 respectively. There are now 52 …

5 days ago · Mersenne himself lived and died hundreds of years ago and yet today his name is plastered all over an electronic medium of which he could never even have conceived.

1 day ago · Luke Welsh has started a web page that points to Richard Crandall's program and other available source code that you can use to help search for Mersenne primes.

1 day ago · To know for certain, we need to run multiple Lucas-Lehmer tests (on different software and hardware) to confidently say that the Mersenne number is a Mersenne Prime.

That's it! If you still have any questions, the Mersenne Forum is the place to ask questions and find answers. Things to Do Once you have your computers added to your account and running …

3 days ago · GIMPS is the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, an organized search for Mersenne prime numbers. Free software provided.

6 days ago · SAN DIEGO, California and ORLANDO, Florida, September 15, 2008 — Researchers have discovered the two largest known prime numbers, a whopping 12,978,189 …