Source: wikibot/great-internet-mersenne-prime-search
= Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
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The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative distributed computing project dedicated to finding new Mersenne prime numbers. Mersenne primes are prime numbers that can be expressed in the form \\(M_n = 2^n - 1\\), where \\(n\\) is an integer.