Prime Numbers
Matthew J Ghio
mg5n+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Apr 11 11:02:41 PDT 1994
Well, for the mathematically curious, here are a few other interesting
prime number theroms:
For any number n which is prime, (2^n)-1 is also prime (Mersenne's theorem).
For any number n (2^(2^n))+1 is prime. (I might have that wrong, I don't
remember exactly)
For any number n, if the square root of (n!)+1 is an integer, it is also
prime. (This is interesting, but rather useless in practice)
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