Mersenne prime Mersenne prime In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form for some integer . They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. The exponents which give Mersenne primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, ... and the resulting Mersenne primes are 3, 7, 31, 127, 8191, 131071, 524287, 2147483647, ... . If is a composite number then so is . ( is divisible by both and .)
Weakly prime number . There are infinitely many weakly prime numbers in any base. Furthermore, for any fixed base there is a positive proportion of such primes. The smallest base "b" weakly primes for "b" = 1 to 16 are: Weakly prime number In number theory, a prime number is called weakly prime if it becomes not prime when any one of its digits is changed to every single other digit. Decimal digits are usually assumed. The first weakly prime numbers are: For the first of these, each of the 54 numbers 094001, 194001, 394001, ..., 294009 are composite. A weakly prime base-"b"