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Originally Posted by piforbreakfast
I've wondered for some time, what is the purpose in factoring numbers that have been found to be non-prime but which have not been fully factored?
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We get a shot at fully factoring them. They have some mathematical uses (or so I've been told), but is also a fun challenge. See
https://www.mersenne.ca/prp.php for the current list of fully factored Mersenne numbers.