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IN 1644 the mathematician Mersenne asserted that out of the 56 primes not < 257, there were only 12 primes, viz.:—
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CUNNINGHAM, A. On Mersenne's Numbers. Nature 51, 533 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051533c0
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