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- From: blom@husc15.harvard.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Extended Fermat primes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.172207.17207@husc15.harvard.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 22:22:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc15.1992Nov7.172207.17207
- Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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- Fermat primes have the form
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- n
- 2
- 2 + 1.
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- One extension of this form could be
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- n
- 2
- (2a) + 1.
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- The largest prime of this form I have encountered is
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- 7
- 2
- 120 + 1.
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- Does anyone know of any larger primes of this form?
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