I did not quite understand the Euler part of the Mersenne numbers, but as I read through it more, I think I am starting to get it better. Overall, it was fairly straight forward, but I am not quite sure where we are going with all of these lemmas.
I did think it was interesting how Mersenne primes are related to perfect numbers. I would not have connected the two. I sort of wonder how people come to postulate these things, or if they just sort of stumble on it.
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