Ok, I see it now: Euler proved that the even perfect numbers come from Mersenne primes. Eliminating redundancy is of course good; the paragraph about 10:00 am Los Angeles campus appears on both pages and I think it has a bit too much detail :-) --AxelBoldt |
Also, if there is indeed such a one-to-one connection between Mersenne primes and perfect numbers, then the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search should probably be mentioned.--AxelBoldt
The GIMP is referenced on the Mersenne prime page. I'm intending to eliminate as much of the redundancy between this page and that one as possible, and I'll include a more emphatic pointer from here to there. -- Hank Ramsey
Eliminating redundancy is of course good; the paragraph about 10:00 am Los Angeles campus appears on both pages and I think it has a bit too much detail :-) --AxelBoldt