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The second perfect number. Leonhard Euler (1707--1783) proved that all even Perfect numbers are of the form 2n-1(2n - 1) where 2n - 1 is a Mersenne prime Mn.

 

  Submitted: 2000-06-16 10:24:11;   Last Modified: 2008-04-08 22:35:04.



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