The 32nd Mersenne Prime, Predicted

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known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" stated 350 years ago-- but unproven
until this week. [Fermat's thoughts on primes did not fare so well,
however. A prime number is an integer, which is evenly integer
divisible only by itself and 1]
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