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# The 32nd Mersenne Prime: Predicted by Mersenne ### By Slowinski, David

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The 32nd Mersenne Prime

Found by

David Slowinski

In honor of Andrew Wiles' proof of the theorem known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" stated 350 years ago--but unproven until this week (February, 1993). [Fermat's thoughts on primes did not fare so well, however. A prime number is an integer, which is evenly integer divisible only by itself and 1]

Took 26.562767 minutes to calculate using Maple 4.0 on a 512-MW 4 CPU Cray 2