Mersenne
Americannoun
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Both numbers, like nine of the 10 largest known prime numbers, have a special form and are called Mersenne primes.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018
The Mersenne hunt, known as GIMPS, is a large distributed computing project in which volunteers run software to search for prime numbers.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016
Why do we know about so many large Mersenne primes and so few large non-Mersenne ones?
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016
We know about this enormous prime number thanks to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016
Descartes was absolutely furious and denied any influence, but when Mersenne visited Beeckman and read his journal he discovered that, indeed, many of Descartes’ ideas had first been formulated by Beeckman.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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