Definition:Mersenne Number/Mistake
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Source Work
2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite:
- Chapter $7$: Patterns in Numbers
- Euclid
Mistake
- Numbers of the form $2^p - 1$, with $p$ prime, are called Mersenne primes, ...
Correction
What Ian Stewart has described are in fact Mersenne numbers.
Not all numbers of the form $2^p - 1$, with $p$ prime, are in fact themselves prime.
Sources
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $7$: Patterns in Numbers: Euclid