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Expect at most one billionth of a new Fermat Prime!

Number Theory 2016-05-10 v2

Abstract

We provide compelling evidence that all Fermat primes were already known to Fermat.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01371,
  title  = {Expect at most one billionth of a new Fermat Prime!},
  author = {Kent D. Boklan and John H. Conway},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01371},
  year   = {2016}
}