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The 32nd Mersenne Prime, Predicted

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June, 1993 [Etext #69] In honor of Andrew Wiles' proof of the theorem known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" stated 350 years ago-- but unproven until this week. [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]

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