Fermat Number
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A
number
of the form $2^{2^n}+1.$
Pierre de Fermat
noticed that the first few are all
prime number
s and thought they might all be, but that turns out not to be true.
Number
s of this form that
are
prime
are called
Fermat prime
s.
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