mersenne

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A mathematician as well as a French Monk who lived in the 16th century, he investigated prime numbers, hoping to create a formula that would represent all primes Although he did not find one, he did create the formula 2^P-1: if the answer to that equation is prime, then P must be prime See also: GIMPS, Mersenne Prime numbers
(2 syl ) The English Mersenne John Collins, mathematician and physicist, so called from Marin Mersenne, the French philosopher (1624-1683)

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mersenne twister
The Mersenne twister is a pseudorandom number generator linked to CR developed in 1997 by and that is based on a matrix linear recurrence over a finite binary field . It provides for fast generation of very high quality pseudorandom numbers, having been designed specifically to rectify many of the flaws found in older algorithms
mersenne prime
A Mersenne number which is prime In order for 2^n - 1 to be prime, n itself must be prime Only 38 Mersenne primes are known; they include the very largest known primes Much more information about Mersenne primes is available here; an Internet-based project to search for more of them is here
mersenne prime
A Mersenne number that is prime