A Fermat number, named after the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, is a number of the form
![](https://blog.gcwizard.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/fermat-1024x195.png)
The first numbers are
3,
5,
17,
257,
65537,
4294967297,
18446744073709551617,
340282366920938463463374607431768211457
A Fermat number, named after the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, is a number of the form
The first numbers are
3,
5,
17,
257,
65537,
4294967297,
18446744073709551617,
340282366920938463463374607431768211457