65537 (number)

65537

65538 →

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Cardinal

sixty-five thousand five hundred thirty-seven

Ordinal

65537th
(sixty-five thousand five hundred thirty-seventh)

Yes

LXVDXXXVII

10000000000000001₂

10022220022₃

100000001₄

4044122₅

1223225₆

200001₈

31B15₁₂

10001₁₆

83GH₂₀

1EKH₃₆

Construction of a regular 65537-gon. See constructible polygon.

65537 is the integer after 65536 and before 65538.

In mathematics

65537 is the largest known prime number of the form $2^{{2^{{n}}}}+1$ ( $n=4$ ). Therefore, a regular polygon with 65537 sides is constructible with compass and unmarked straightedge. In number theory, primes of this form are known as Fermat primes, named after the mathematician Pierre de Fermat. The only known prime Fermat numbers are

$2^{{2^{{0}}}}+1=2^{{1}}+1=3,$

$2^{{2^{{1}}}}+1=2^{{2}}+1=5,$

$2^{{2^{{2}}}}+1=2^{{4}}+1=17,$

$2^{{2^{{3}}}}+1=2^{{8}}+1=257,$

$2^{{2^{{4}}}}+1=2^{{16}}+1=65537.$ ^[1]

In 1732, Leonhard Euler found that the next Fermat number is composite:

$2^{{2^{{5}}}}+1=2^{{32}}+1=4294967297=641\times 6700417$

In 1880, Fortuné Landry showed that

$2^{{2^{{6}}}}+1=2^{{64}}+1=274177\times 67280421310721$

65537 is also the 17th Jacobsthal–Lucas number, and currently the largest known integer n for which the number $10^{{n}}+27$ is a probable prime.^[2]

Applications

65537 is commonly used as a public exponent in the RSA cryptosystem. Because it is the Fermat number F_n = 2^2ⁿ + 1 with n = 4, the common shorthand is "F₄" or "F4".^[3] This value is seen as a wise compromise, since it is famously known to be prime, large enough to avoid the attacks to which small exponents make RSA vulnerable, and due to its low Hamming weight (number of 1 bits) can be computed extremely quickly on binary computers, which often support shift and increment instructions. Exponents in any base can be represented as shifts to the left in a base positional notation system, and so in binary the result is doubling—65536 is the result of incrementing shifting 1 left by 16 places, and 16 is itself obtainable without loading a value into the register (which can be expensive when register contents approaches 64 bit), but zero and one can be derived more 'cheaply'.

65537 is also used as the modulus in some Lehmer random number generators, such as the one used by ZX Spectrum, which ensures that any seed value will be coprime to it (vital to ensure the maximum period) while also allowing efficient reduction by the modulus using a bit shift and subtract.

References

↑ Conway, J. H.; Guy, R. K. (1996). The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 139. ISBN 0-387-97993-X.
↑ Sequences by difficulty of search
↑ "genrsa(1)". OpenSSL Project. -F4|-3 [..] the public exponent to use, either 65537 or 3. The default is 65537.

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