A Really Trivial Proof of the Lucas-Lehmer Test

DOI10.2307/2324959MaRDI QIDQ4695136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors James William Bruce

Publication date 26 April 1994

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2324959

zbMATH Keywords

elementary proofLucas-Lehmer testprimality of Mersenne numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primality (11Y11)

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