Mersenne Primes are prime numbers that are one less than a power of 2. These are of the form: , where is a positive integer. The IthMersenne command returns the exponent for the Ith Mersenne prime number:
The top level isprime command determines if a given number is prime:
The IsMersenne command checks if a positive integer, n, is a Mersenne exponent, where 2^n-1 is a Mersenne prime:
There are 52 known Mersenne Primes.
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