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Mersenne numbers are named after the French monk Marin Mersenne. These numbers are of the form 2P-1. A small percentage of these numbers are prime. A Lucas-Lehmer primality test is used to find which Mersenne numbers are prime. The links below give a wonderful description of Mersenne numbers and their history.
Chris Caldwell's web page on Mersenne numbers
Will Edgington's web page has a lot of interesting data on factoring Mersenne numbers.
Several teams have formed to climb the PrimeNet statistics pages at an accelerated rate. Here are the links to a few team home pages.
Team Prime Rib was formed by the ARS Technica user community.
Bijan Soleymani has formed a team too.
Last Updated: March 27, 2007