Mersenne
Americannoun
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Update, Jan. 4, 2018: On Wednesday, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search announced that a computer owned by Jonathan Pace in Germantown, Tennessee, discovered a new prime number.
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018
The next largest known prime, 257,885,161-1, is also a Mersenne prime.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016
We keep finding large Mersenne primes because the light is better there.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2016
All in all, the 11 largest known primes are Mersenne.
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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