Mersenne: Rather naive question

[Jiho Kim]

How exactly are the exponents to be tested chosen?  It must be prime, of
course, and so do we just test all prime exponents?  Or is there a further
effort that GIMPS makes to weed out mersenne composites with prime
exponents?

Just wondering,

J.K.


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