| Similarly, M 43,112,609 was followed by two smaller Mersenne primes, first 2 weeks later and then 9 months later | |
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| " Mersenne's Numbers, Scripta Mathematica, v | All Mersenne numbers below the 51st Mersenne prime M 82,589,933 have been tested at least once but some have not been double-checked |
"The primes M 9689, M 9941, and M 11213 which are now the largest known primes, were discovered by Illiac II at the Digital Computer Laboratory of the University of Illinois.
| " Bryant Tuckerman, The 24th Mersenne Prime, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol | in Chippewa Falls, discovered the number at 11:36 a |
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| Caldwell, "" from the website, | In his Theology of Arithmetic in the chapter On the Decad, Iamblichus writes: "Speusippus, the son of Plato's sister Potone, and head of the Academy before Xenocrates, compiled a polished little book from the Pythagorean writings which were particularly valued at any time, and especially from the writings of Philolaus; he entitled the book On Pythagorean Numbers |
Lehmer, Recent Discoveries of Large Primes, Mathematics of Computation, vol.
| The record prime number's exponent is 216,091 | 14908 consists of 10 different medieval works on mathematics and related subjects |
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| David Slowinski, "Searching for the 27th Mersenne Prime", Journal of Recreational Mathematics, v | Caldwell, "" from the website, |