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Carol prime
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Noun
en mathematics A Carol number that is also a prime number.
en 2011 The Farey Sieve Scott B. Guthery 8 Carol Primes: FareySieve[{(2^#-1)^2-2&}]
en 2019 Prime Recreations: An Olio of Curios about Prime Numbers Bruce Pyne 29 16,127 The fifth Carol prime of the form (2n – 1)2 – 2
en 2021 Mersenne Numbers And Fermat Numbers Elena Deza 138 By this approach, the Kynèa primes and the Carol primes can be consider as examples of generated Mersenne primes, with the polynomials f(x) = x2 ± 2x − 1.
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