1,257,787/Historical Note

Historical Note on $1 \, 257 \, 787$

The Mersenne number $M_{1 \, 257 \, 787} = 2^{1 \, 257 \, 787} - 1$ was demonstrated to be a Mersenne prime by David Slowinski and Paul Gage.

This discovery was announced on $2$ September $1996$.


Sources

  • 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $2^{1,257,787} - 1$
  • 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Mersenne prime
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