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Thanks, I used to be very interested in Perfect Numbers when I was growing up. I still find it amazing how closely Perfect Numbers are related to Mersenne primes.
When I was younger there were only 31 Perfect Numbers known and each one was closely related to a Mersenne prime. I used to go to the library to look at the newest editions of the Guiness Book of World Records to see if any new Perfect Numbers were found. (This was before Al Gore invented the Internet.) In the early 90s there was another one found and it was also related to a Mersenne prime.
There were 15 more found since then and it’s been proven that Perfect Numbers and Mersenne primes are one-to-one.