Primes Are Forever
"If diamonds are a girl's best friend,
prime numbers are a mathematician's….
A Mersenne prime is of the form 2P-1,
where the variable P is itself a prime—
making the Mersenne an elite sort of prime,
a James Bond among spies."
— Anonymous author at
Fox News, Feb. 5, 2013
The author notes that the smaller
Mersenne primes include 7.
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