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Check out the website that is devoted to RSA encryption. It has some interesting
contests on factoring a large composite number into a product of primes.
The prime source for information about prime numbers!
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/
found in: Science > Math > Number
Theory > Prime Numbers
Introduction to the history of the Mersenne primes; standard theorems and test; conjectures and
lists.
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml
found in:
Science > Math > Number Theory > Prime Numbers > Mersenne
GIMPS is dedicated to a rigorous search for new Mersenne primes. Our goal is to
test every Mersenne number with an exponent less than 20,500,000.
http://www.mersenne.org/
found in: Science > Math > Mathematicians
Freeware to search for Mersenne Primes. Pointers to FreeLIP, GMP, HFloat, apfloat, CALC
http://www.samurai.com/mersenne/freeware.html
found in: Science > Math >
Number Theory > Software