Our Brief Journey with Fermat Numbers
Abstract
A Fermat number is an integer of the form
The Fermat numbers are named after the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601 – 1665) who first studied numbers of such form.
In this paper, we investigated some interesting properties of the Fermat numbers.
The first five Fermat numbers are 1,5,17,257 and 65537.
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