At 03:30 PM 3/25/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Mp is a Mersenne Prime with odd prime p "iff"
>3^((Mp-1)/2)=-1 (mod Mp) .
This looks like it is just based on Euler's criteria.
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