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Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture
In number theory, Lenstra , Pomerance , and Wagstaff have conjectured that not only are there an infinite number of Mersenne primes, meaning prime numbers of the form
- 2p − 1,
but that the number of Mersenne primes with exponent p less than x is asymptotically approximated by
- eγlog2(x),
where γ is the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
See also: New Mersenne conjecture.
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