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Just to clarify, in this case p = 77,232,917 is prime, but for Mersenne primes in general p is just a positive integer.
by dansunciel 9y ago
Just to clarify, in this case p = 77,232,917 is prime, but for Mersenne primes in general p is just a positive integer.
- meta_AU 9y agoNot quite. If p isn't prime then 2^p - 1 isn't prime.