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This program is used to find Mersenne Prime numbers. See
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http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml for a good
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description of Mersenne primes. Mersenne numbers can be proved
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composite (not prime) by either finding a factor or by running
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a Lucas-Lehmer primality test.
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