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2 is the lowest Mersenne prime.

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2 is the lowest Mersenne prime.

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A Mersenne number is a number of the form 2n-1. When this number is prime, it is known as a Mersenne prime.

A Mersenne prime has the form 2n-1. For 2n-1 to be prime, n must also be prime. Examples are the Mersenne prime 7 (23 - 1 = 7) and the Mersenne prime 127 (27 - 1 = 127)

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Did you mean what Mersenne numbers are prime? If a number is a prime, how is it not a prime at the same time? Anyways, M11, or (2^11) - 1, I think is the lowest Mersenne Number Mp that isn't prime, when p is prime. Any Mersenne Number where p is not prime cannot be prime.

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Mersenne prime is a kind of number - a prime. Being a number, it was not capable of discovering anything

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Let p = any prime number.

(2p -1) is called a Mersenne number. Any such number that is prime is called a Mersenne Prime. Father Mersenne wrote a list of numbers of this type which he thought were prime, but a few were not.

In fact, most of the large Mersenne numbers are not prime, but all the really large numbers that have been proved to be prime are Mersenne Primes.

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