Mersenne
Americannoun
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Mersenne numbers are 1 less than a power of 2.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2016
The next largest known prime, 257,885,161-1, is also a Mersenne prime.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2016
First, we know that only a few Mersenne numbers are even candidates for being Mersenne primes.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2016
Mersenne primes, logically enough, are Mersenne numbers that are also prime.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2016
This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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