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Re:Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search by PeterisP on Saturday February 15, 2020 @10:08AM (#22335701)
Has the discovery of these 17 primes been useful in any way for further mathematics analysis? Are there any hypotheses or theorems about Mersenne primes that have used the facts about these 17 particular numbers in any way?
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