Hi p k, > In layman's terms there are infinite number of numbers therefore there are > and infinite number of primes.
That's not true. There *are* infinitely many primes, of course, but that's not because there are infinitely many positive integers. > I think it safe to say that since there are > infinite number of primes that are infinite number that will take the form > of 2^n - 1 granted they are few and far between. I sure there is a way to > represent this mathematically. That's not a conclusion that's necessarily true, either. For example, how many primes are there that have the form 2n for some positive integer n? Using your reasoning, since there are infinitely many primes, there should be infinitely many of these, too. That's not to say that there aren't infinitely many Mersenne primes - it may well be true. But until a strict proof is found (whether it's proof that there are infinitely many or that there's only a finite number of them), we won't know. -- 7:49PM up 104 days, 5:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.29, 0.23, 0.21 Every non-empty totally disconnected perfect compact metric space is homeomorphic to the Cantor set. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
