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196 words, approx. 1 pages Fermat numbers, named after the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, are numbers of the form Fn= 22n+1, where n is some non-negative integer. The first few Fermat numbers are F0=3, F1=5, F2=17, F3=257, F4=65537 and F5=4294967297 and were computed by...
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 In mathematics, a Fermat number, named after Pierre de Fermat who first studied them, is a positive integer of the...



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Fermat-number factors. (mathematics)
06/23/1990: 299 words, approx. 1 pages Fermat-number factors Two computer scientists have reached an important milestone on the road toward factoring ever-larger composite numbers. Last week, Arjen K. Lenstra of Bellcore in Morristown, N.J., and Mark S. Manasse of the Digital Equipment Corp. Systems Research Center in Palo...
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Closing in on Fermat's last theorem. (Pierre de Fermat)
06/20/1987: 650 words, approx. 2 pages Closing in on Fermat's last theorem One of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematicsstarted out as a note scrawled in the margin of a book. Now known as Fermat's last theorem, the problem was first proposed by 17th-century French mathematician Pierre...


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