The time you spent writing this you could've googled mersenne primes and how candidates are selected. You would've found out there are loads of techniques to na

The time you spent writing this you could've googled mersenne primes and how candidates are selected. You would've found out there are loads of techniques to narrow them down, and that we're looking for specific types of primes as the first step in this. Then you would've avoided coming off as a dunning-kruger know-it-all...