Fermat Number -- from Wolfram MathWorld
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatNumber.htmlNo two Fermat numbers have a common divisor greater than 1 (Hardy and Wright 1979, p. 14). Fermat conjectured in 1650 that every Fermat number is prime and Eisenstein proposed as a problem in 1844 the proof that there are an infinite number of Fermat primes (Ribenboim 1996, p. 88). At present, however, only composite Fermat numbers are known for .
Fermat number - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat_numberBecause of Fermat numbers' size, it is difficult to factorize or even to check primality. Pépin's test gives a necessary and sufficient condition for primality of Fermat numbers, and can be implemented by modern computers. The elliptic curve methodis a fast method for finding small prime divisors of numbers. Distributed computing project Fermatsearch has found some factors of Fermat numbers. Yves Gallot's proth.exe has been used to find factors of large Fermat numbe…