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I struggled with understanding Mersenne primes here because 1) 2ⁿ-1 is odd numbers and primes so what's special about that? and 2) Because I have no memory of
by WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
I struggled with understanding Mersenne primes here because
1) 2ⁿ-1 is odd numbers and primes so what's special about that? and
2) Because I have no memory of being taught that subscript denotes position in a set. So I guess I blew past the Mₙ= part.
- commandersaki 2y ago(1) is not true, for example 2^6 - 1 = 63 which has a factor 3^3.