Where do u think they got.........bring out the gimp??  As in the movie Pulp Fiction.........

An exhaustive search by the GIMPS distributed computing project has shown that the first 45 even perfect numbers are 2^p−1(2^p − 1) for

p = 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 61, 89, 107, 127, 521, 607, 1279, 2203, 2281, 3217, 4253, 4423, 9689, 9941, 11213, 19937, 21701, 23209, 44497, 86243, 110503, 132049, 216091, 756839, 859433, 1257787, 1398269, 2976221, 3021377, 6972593, 13466917, 20996011, 24036583, 25964951, 30402457, 32582657, and 37156667 (sequence