Large primes and Fermat factors

Young, Jeff

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-98-00989-2

Mathematics of Computation

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Large primes and Fermat factors
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Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 1735-1738

Abstract:

A systematic search for large primes has yielded the largest Fermat factors known.

References

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