From: Will Edgington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 
  The composite factors of prime exponent Mersennes
  are all base-2 pseudo-primes, but that's not enough; they should
  probably be Cunningham numbers (which are pseudo-prime to all bases
  that aren't related to their factors).


I think those are called "Carmichael Numbers"
 

From: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/glossary/CarmichaelNumber.html
 

               The composite integer n is a Carmichael number if an-1=1
                (mod n) for every integer a relatively prime to n. (This condition
                is satisfied by all primes because of Fermat's Little Theorem.)
                The Fermat probable primality test will fail to show a Carmichael
                number is composite until we run across one of its factors!
                Although Carmichael numbers are rare, only 2,163 are less than
                25,000,000,000, it has recently been shown that there are
                infinitely many of them.

 

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