Description: Divisor of Fermat number (Euler's Result), see ProofWiki "Divisor of Fermat Number/Euler's Result", 24-Jul-2021, https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Divisor_of_Fermat_Number/Euler's_Result ): "Let F_n be a Fermat number. Let m be divisor of F_n. Then m is in the form: k*2^(n+1)+1 where k is a positive integer." Here, however, k must be a nonnegative integer, because k must be 0 to represent 1 (which is a divisor of F_n ).
Historical Note: In 1747, Leonhard Paul Euler proved that a divisor of a Fermat number F_n is always in the form kx2^(n+1)+1. This was later refined to k*2^(n+2)+1 by François Édouard Anatole Lucas, see fmtnofac2 . (Contributed by AV, 30-Jul-2021)
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Assertion | fmtnofac1 | |