List of 43 Known Mersenne Primes, 2p - 1
p =
2,
3,
5,
7,
13,
17,
19,
31 (
Euler, 1772),
61,
89,
107,
127 (
Lucas, 1876),
Edouard Lucas worked with Fibonacci numbers extensively in the last half
of the 19th century (in fact it was Lucas who popularized the name
"Fibonacci numbers"). He used properties of Fibonacci numbers to prove
that the 39-digit Mersenne number 2^127 - 1 is prime.
521,
607,
1279,
2203,
2281,
3217,
4253,
4423,
9689,
9941,
11213,
19937,
21701 (
Curt Noll & Nickel, 1978),
23209,
44497,
86243 (
David Slowinski, 1982),
110503,
132049,
216091,
756839,
859433,
1257787,
1398269 (Joel Armengaud, Woltman, GIMPS, November 1996),
2976221 (
Gordon Spence, Woltman, GIMPS, August 24, 1997),
3021377 (
Roland Clarkson, Woltman, Kurowski, GIMPS, January 27, 1998, 6:43 pm PST)
-- This number has 909,526 decimal digits
3021377
(Postscript Form)
6972593
Nayan Hajratwala, Woltman, Kurowski, GIMPS, June 1, 1999 -- This number has
2,098,960 decimal digits
13466917
Michael Cameron and GIMPS, November 14, 2001 -- This number has 4,053,946 decimal digits
20996011
Michael Shafer and GIMPS, November 17, 2003 -- This number has 6,320,430 decimal
digits
24036583
Josh Findley and GIMPS, May 15, 2004 -- This number has 7,235,733 decimal digits
25964951
Dr. Martin Nowak, February 18, 2005 -- This number has 7,816,230 decimal digits
30402457
Curtis Cooper, Steven Boone, and GIMPS, December 15, 2005 -- This number has 9,152,052 decimal digits
BIG PRIME