Only 51 Have Been Found: Here’s Mersenne Primes
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6 min readJan 2, 2023
And, so what’s the next number in the sequence 3, 7, 31, and 127? Well, it’s 8,191, and I will explain why in a little minute.
If you need to test with prime numbers — such as with public key encryption — how do you remember some large ones that you can test with? Well, one of the easiest ways is to remember the Mersenne prime numbers.
