> Any perfect number is of the form
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> (2^(p-1))(2^p - 1)
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> if 2^p - 1 is a prime. So any Mersenne prime, e.g.
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> 2^3021377 - 1,
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> will give a perfect number
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> 2^3021376(2^3021377 - 1).

Yeah. That gives you what is currently the second largest perfect number, which we also calculated. The largest is (2^6972592)*(2^6972593-1). You can get the biggest at http://sipos.yi.org/perfect.txt and the second biggest at http://sipos.yi.org/perfect-2.txt , if you so desire. We printed the biggest one out, and it took 956 pages. The stack of paper is about 6 inches tall. I carry it around and girls come up to me. Then they ask me what it is, and I tell them, and they say "Wow, you're hot."

Wes - "Gets em every time."