There is a prime number that is the sum of the first 17 powers of 2. - Apparently.
The prime number 2^17 + 1 = 131071 is the 17th Mersenne prime, a type of prime number that is one more than a power of 2. This particular prime was discovered in 1915 by French mathematician François Le Lasseur, who was searching for Mersenne primes using a manual calculation method. Today, mathematicians use computers to find Mersenne primes, and new ones are still being discovered.