At 10:16 AM 7/9/99 -0700, Kris Garrett wrote:
Has it been proven that all mersenne numbers greater than one are
square free?
As far as I know, it has not been proven (and no repeated factors are known
either).
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Hello,
thus the numbers can never be the same above one
when the mersenne number mod 4 is always 3 and
the odd square mod 4 is always 1.
Your analysis is correct but your conclusion is wrong.
You've proved that all Mersenne numbers greater than 1 cannot be odd
squares but you haven't
