2.List all the intermediate questions that you formed between the first question and your final question? How do they find these high prime numbers? What do they use to calculate it? Who discovered these numbers? Who is Mersenne?
3. What approaches and ideas did you implement in each of these stages? For each of these questions I searched for an answer and each answer led me to a new question that I had to ask. After I found the highest prime number, I wondered how they found it, and I searched it on google, and then I wondered how they calculated it and did another search, and I became curious about who found it.
4. How would you evaluate your final question? Is it more complex? Do you think you could continue further with this process and come up with something even more complex? I would evaluate my final question by doing some research on Marin Mersenne and find out who he was and how he developed these numbers and what exactly it is. It is more complex because there is a big history behind Mersenne Prime Number. Yes I believe if I continued I would find more complex questions.
5. What other questions might help you to continue your exploration? Who discovered the idea of prime numbers, and what is a titanic prime?
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You have a number of factual questions posed here. I like the idea of searching the discoverer of the Mersenne number. Looking into history would certainly complicate the question.
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