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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, a <b>Mersenne prime</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=prime_number">prime number</a> that is one less than a <a href="page.php?w=power_of_two">power of two</a>.  That is, it is a prime number <a href="page.php?w=of_the_form">of the form</a>  for some <a href="page.php?w=integer">integer</a> .  They are named after <a href="page.php?w=Marin_Mersenne">Marin Mersenne</a>, a French <a href="page.php?w=Minims_%28religious_order%29">Minim friar</a>, who studied them in the early 17th century.  If  is</p><p>
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