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Question 1:
Which of the following titles did Mersenne prime have?
Senator for New South Wales
Mersenne prime
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Is This Thing On?

Question 2: (To check this formula, just compute the right-hand product: most terms will cancel out.) We have thus written 2ab − 1 as a product of integers > 1, ________
French languageSpanish languageQ.E.D.Polish language

Question 3: Mersenne primes are used in pseudorandom number generators such as the ________, Park–Miller random number generator, Generalized Shift Register and Fibonacci RNG.
Exclusive orMersenne twisterLinear congruential generatorModulo operation

Question 4: The ________ with minor planet number 8191 is named 8191 Mersenne after Marin Mersenne, because 8191 is the fifth Mersenne prime.
CometCeres (dwarf planet)Asteroid beltAsteroid

Question 5: Mersenne primes are interesting to many for their connection to ________.
Perfect numberSemiperfect numberHarmonic divisor numberPrime number

Question 6: The prime was found on a ________ 745 on August 23, 2008.
Dell OptiPlexDell XPSDell LatitudeDell Inspiron Mini Series

Question 7: In mathematics, a Mersenne number, named after ________, is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two:
Giovanni Pico della MirandolaGalileo GalileiPierre GassendiMarin Mersenne

Question 8: [29] The asteroids with the previous four numbers corresponding to Mersenne primes (________, 7 Iris, 31 Euphrosyne, 127 Johanna) were already named after others.
Ceres (dwarf planet)4 Vesta2 Pallas3 Juno

Question 9: If a number has only one very large factor then other algorithms can factorize larger numbers by first finding small factors and then making a ________ on the cofactor.
Primality testInteger factorizationAKS primality testEuclidean algorithm

Question 10: In the 18th century, ________ proved that, conversely, all even perfect numbers have this form.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceLeonhard EulerIsaac NewtonJoseph Louis Lagrange
















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