TIL that the classic Prime95 stress testing software was originally created to distribute compute power to solve Mersenne primes. Which relates to the oldest unsolved problem in Math. "Do Odd Perfect Numbers Exist?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95

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