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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.