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Expect at Most One Billionth of a New Fermat Prime!

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Queens College, City University of New York, Queens, NY, 11367, USA

    Kent D. Boklan

  2. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    John H. Conway

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Boklan, K.D., Conway, J.H. Expect at Most One Billionth of a New Fermat Prime!. Math Intelligencer 39, 3–5 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9644-3

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