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by meta_AU 3092 days ago
Also, p is prime.
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dansunciel 3092 days ago
Just to clarify, in this case p = 77,232,917 is prime, but for Mersenne primes in general p is just a positive integer.
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meta_AU 3092 days ago
Not quite. If p isn't prime then 2^p - 1 isn't prime.
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