Fermat numbers and Mersenne numbers

Selfridge, J. L.; Hurwitz, Alexander

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1964-0159775-8

Mathematics of Computation

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Fermat numbers and Mersenne numbers
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References

Alexander Hurwitz, New Mersenne primes, Math. Comp. 16 (1962), 249–251. MR 146162, DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-1962-0146162-X

Notices Amer. Math. Soc.

G. A. Paxson, The compositeness of the thirteenth Fermat number, Math. Comp. 15 (1961), 420. MR 124264, DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-1961-0124264-0
Hans Riesel, Mersenne numbers, Math. Tables Aids Comput. 12 (1958), 207–213. MR 101850, DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-1958-0101850-5
Raphael M. Robinson, Mersenne and Fermat numbers, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1954), 842–846. MR 64787, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9939-1954-0064787-4