Are there any more Fermat Primes?

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Open Question

Are there any more Fermat primes than the $5$ that are known about?


Sequence

The sequence of Fermat primes begins:

\(\ds 2^{\paren {2^0} } + 1\) \(=\) \(\ds 3\)
\(\ds 2^{\paren {2^1} } + 1\) \(=\) \(\ds 5\)
\(\ds 2^{\paren {2^2} } + 1\) \(=\) \(\ds 17\)
\(\ds 2^{\paren {2^3} } + 1\) \(=\) \(\ds 257\)
\(\ds 2^{\paren {2^4} } + 1\) \(=\) \(\ds 65 \, 537\)

No other Fermat primes are known.


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