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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Extended Fermat primes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.183618.25103@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov7.172207.17207@husc15.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:36:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.172207.17207@husc15.harvard.edu> blom@husc15.harvard.edu writes:
- >Fermat primes have the form
- >
- > n
- > 2
- >2 + 1.
- >
- >One extension of this form could be
- >
- > n
- > 2
- >(2a) + 1.
- >
- >The largest prime of this form I have encountered is
- >
- > 7
- > 2
- >120 + 1.
- >
- >Does anyone know of any larger primes of this form?
-
- Sticking to exponent 128, replacing 120 by 190 and 234 yields the next
- two primes. Nothing more out to 500.
- --
- Vaughan Pratt
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