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Letter: For the record – 24 August 2019

Published 21 August 2019

• Count on it: the formula for the distribution of Mersenne primes along the number line predicted that there would be fewer than four between 220,000,000 and 285,000,000 (10 August, p 38).

Issue no. 3244 published 24 August 2019

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