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is there anything special you can do with mersenne primes? if there's no pattern to them, can't it just be seen as dumb luck?
by legohead 11y ago
is there anything special you can do with mersenne primes? if there's no pattern to them, can't it just be seen as dumb luck?
- syncsynchalt 11y agoThey represent the largest known primes, as the special case 2^n-1 allows us to verify their primeness using a method much more efficient than checking all potential factors. So to answer your question, if there's ever a need for ridiculously large numbers that are known to be prime this is how we'll fill it. Short of that need, it's still fun as a mathematical world record!