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No - it's common to try to find large Mersenne Primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime) which are prim
by ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
No - it's common to try to find large Mersenne Primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime) which are primes that are one less than a power of 2. This will miss out a lot of non-Mersenne primes.