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+This program is used to find Mersenne Prime numbers. See
+http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml for a good
+description of Mersenne primes. Mersenne numbers can be proved
+composite (not prime) by either finding a factor or by running
+a Lucas-Lehmer primality test.