A while back I described a debate that my husband and I had about how to answer the question, "How many children do you plan to have?" (He favored the Mersenne primes; I favored the Fibonacci series.)
Amy Welborn gives me a piece of information I didn’t have: Mersenne was a Catholic priest! So, maybe Mark was right after all…
Much more at the link, about other priest/scientists.
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