257

This number is a prime.

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Belgian mathematician Maurice Kraitchik showed that Mersenne was wrong in his claims for his largest prime of 257 when he showed that 2²⁵⁷ - 1 is not prime.

Submitted: 2026-06-28 04:32:05; Last Modified: 2026-06-28 04:36:21.