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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Euclid–Euler theorem

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... that after Euclid proved that every Mersenne prime leads to an even perfect number, it took over 2000 years before Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number comes from a Mersenne prime? Source: Pollack & Shevelev, "On perfect and near-perfect numbers", DOI:10.1016/j.jnt.2012.06.008: "It is interesting that 2000 years passed before the next important result in the theory of perfect numbers."

Reviewed: Women's National Basketball Players Association

Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 00:30, 8 July 2021 (UTC).

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General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article received a GA status and hook is interesting. So, DYK is good to go. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 20:15, 25 July 2021 (UTC)