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The Catalan-Mersenne numbers cn are double Mersenne numbers defined by c0 = 2 and \({c_n} = {2^{{c_{n - 1}}}} - 1\) for positive integers n. We prove a certain congruence relation of the Catalan- Mersenne numbers.
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This work was supported by the Dongguk University Research Fund of 2017 and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No. NRF-2017R1C1B5017567).
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Eum, I.S. A congruence relation of the Catalan-Mersenne numbers. Indian J Pure Appl Math 49, 521–526 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13226-018-0281-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13226-018-0281-8