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Some Notes on the Distribution of Mersenne Primes
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Applied Mathematics·Volume 01 (2010)·Pages 312–315·Published 29 October 2010·DOI10.4236/am.2010.14041
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Abstract
Mersenne primes are a special kind of primes, which are always an important content in number theory. The study of Mersenne primes becomes one of hot topics of the nowadays science. It has not settled that whether there exist infinite Mersenne primes. And several of conjectures on the distribution of it provided by scholars. Starting from the Mersenne primes known about, in this paper we study the distribution of Mersenne primes and argued against some suppositions by data analyzing.
KeywordsMersenne PrimesDistributionZhou ConjectureNumber Theory
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