The Cunningham Project


Introduction to The Cunningham Project

Explanation of the notation on the Pages and the Champion Page.

The Known Mersenne Primes
The Largest Known Primes

The Fermat Prime Divisors ( A new link in 2017)

The Third Edition of The Cunningham Book.

The Joy of Factoring, a factoring book. The book cover. The triplets are Purdue fans. Some corrections and comments.
Review at Math Reviews.
Review at Math Assn of America.
Review at mersenneforum.
According to AMS' twitter feed, The Joy of Factoring was selected as a 2014 CHOICE magazine Outstanding Academic Title.

Press release for the 2012 discovery of 75- and 79-digit primes by the Elliptic Curve Method.

The "Wanted" lists issued August 22, 2022

The Champions and First Five Holes as of August 22, 2022

The Main Tables as of July 22, 2022 (925K bytes). This is the latest version. These tables include all factors through # 6657 on Page 141.

Appendix A as of July 22, 2022 (1530K bytes). (The counts of additional primes in the main tables have not been updated.)

Appendix C as of July 22, 2022 (207K bytes).

The base 2 tables have been extended to n = 1500 and included in the regular tables. Extensions to the Cunningham tables.

Page 142 (the latest page).

Page 141 (the previous page).

Who is factoring which number now.

Old Pages

Paper "The Search for Aurifeuillian-Like Factorizations" which appeared in the journal Integers vol. 12A (2012), Art. A16

Paul Leyland's Cullen and Woodall pages.


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(This page last modified August 22, 2022)