2 days 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 …

3 days 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 …

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.

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 …

4 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.

3 days ago · How GIMPS Works Overview Mersenne numbers are of the simple form 2 P -1, where P is the exponent to be tested. It is easy to prove that if 2 P -1 is prime, then P must be …

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Nov 13, 1996 · GIMPS History Since its founding in 1996, GIMPS has discovered 18 Mersenne primes so far. Could you be next? For a full history of GIMPS, please see the Wikipedia entry …