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Mersenne Primes

The following notebooks aim to explore a fascinating integer series called the Mersenne Primes. It's a function whose domain and range are all prime numbers. It can be written as:

f(x) = 2x - 1

When x is a prime number and f(x) is also prime, this is considered a Mersenne Prime.

To date, there are only 51 identified Mersenne Primes. The most recently discovered was on December 07, 2018. It is 282589933 - 1. The value of that Mersenne Prime expression contains 24,862,048 digits.

The notebooks contained herein have CSV writers for primes and Mersenne Primes and a verification tool. The are also some example prime range files in output/ranges/.

To learn more:

https://www.mersenne.org/

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