πππππ I had so much fun reading your post!
Prime numbers are pretty cool indeed! Love it that you made such an effort to create something around this type of number for HIVE. WEEHOO! π₯³ π₯³ π₯³
My first ever contribution to some decentralised project was back in the 90s. Some project in search for the next prime number of a special kind, namely: the Mersenne prime. Oops, it was the second decentralised project that I provided my computing power to, the first one was Seti, Search for Extraterrestrial Life. Anyways, doesn't matter. I think I was co-computing the Mersenne Prime project for at least two, maybe even three years. Since blockchains were born, I never co-computed anything anymore. Strange somehow, since my co-computing projects were 100% free of charge, no incentives of any kind whilst with blockchains we can earn money when we use our computing power. I suppose I like the rewardless co-computing more :)
Anyways, prime numbers are super cool! π
YES!! I am very glad to hear you are also a lover of primes. And Mersenne primes too! So great. I love that (1) it is unknown whether there are infinitely many Mersenne primes, (2) this is directly related to whether there are infinitely many perfect numbers (numbers whose sum of proper divisors is equal to itself, like 6 and 28, and i am certain you know about these!), and (3) all of those perfect numbers generated by Mersenne primes are even, and we have no idea if there exist any odd perfect numbers!
I also am in love with Goldbach's conjecture but maybe that can be another post...
Thanks for reading the post!!
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Though my studies included a lot of math, it was only prime numbers and the special type Mersenne prime that I was taught. Perfect numbers and Goldbach's conjecture weren't on the agenda. Hence, I presearch-ed a little and I must admit: Great theories! Both of them!