Talk:Mersenne prime

Data on factor types

Can be gotten from prime pages they have the proof.

Sieving small prime factors

Before learning how to use polynomial remainder theorem they sieved to 40,000 for each candidate factor, afterwards I think that jumped to 40,000,000

additional restrictions that could be added to prime factors

They also need to be prime for least factors, that means since we can sieve of sundaram within them...