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Large primes and Fermat factors

Author(s): Jeff Young.
Journal: Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 1735-1738.
MSC (1991): Primary 11A51; Secondary 11B99
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Abstract: A systematic search for large primes has yielded the largest Fermat factors known.

References:

1.: H. Dubner and W. Keller, Factors of generalized Fermat numbers, Math. Comp. 64 (1995), 397-405. MR 95c:11010
2.: G. Hardy and E. Wright, The theory of numbers, 4th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1975.
3.: D. Knuth, The art of computer programming, vol. 2, Addison-Wesley, 1969. MR 44:3531


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