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Mersenne numbers are named after the French monk Marin Mersenne. These numbers are of the form 2^P-1. A small percentage of these numbers are prime. A Lucas-Lehmer primality test is used to find which Mersenne numbers are prime. The links below give a wonderful description of Mersenne numbers and their history.

Chris Caldwell's web page on Mersenne numbers
Luther Welsh's web page on Mersenne numbers
Will Edgington's web page has a lot of interesting data on factoring Mersenne numbers.
Read an excellent paper recently written by a high school student.
Join a mailing list for in-depth discussions of Mersenne numbers

If you are worried about how this software might affect your computer, then these case studies may alleviate your worries.

The University of Albany has written an excellent case study. So has Temple University.

Several teams have formed to climb the PrimeNet statistics pages at an accelerated rate. Here are the links to a few team home pages.

Read about the history of team lovefest. They are one of several teams that have banded together to quickly climb the top producers list.

Cyril Flaig has also started a new team.

A group of Turkish students has started a new team.

Bijan Soleymani has formed a team too.

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