257
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$257$ (two hundred and fifty-seven) is:
- The $55$th prime number
- The $3$rd (and largest known) prime Sierpiński number of the first kind after $2$, $5$:
- $257 = 4^4 + 1$
- The $4$th Fermat number and Fermat prime after $3$, $5$, $17$:
- $257 = 2^{\paren {2^3} } + 1 = 2^8 + 1$
- The $4$th Sierpiński number of the first kind after $2$, $5$, $28$:
- $257 = 4^4 + 1$
- The $6$th balanced prime after $5$, $53$, $157$, $173$, $211$:
- $257 = \dfrac {251 + 263} 2$
- The $7$th prime number of the form $n^2 + 1$ after $2$, $5$, $17$, $37$, $101$, $197$:
- $257 = 16^2 + 1$
- The $10$th Proth prime after $3$, $5$, $13$, $17$, $41$, $97$, $113$, $193$, $241$:
- $257 = 1 \times 2^8 + 1$
- The index of the $12$th and last Mersenne number after $1$, $2$, $3$, $5$, $7$, $13$, $17$, $19$, $31$, $67$, $127$ which Marin Mersenne asserted to be prime
- (in this case he was not correct: in $1922$, Maurice Kraitchik proved that $M_{257}$ is composite)
- The $21$st long period prime after $7$, $17$, $19$, $23$, $29$, $\ldots$, $181$, $193$, $223$, $229$, $233$
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Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $257$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $257$