• The Fermat primality test is a probabilistic test to determine whether a number is a probable prime. Fermat's little theorem states that if p is prime...
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  • number is likely to be prime, similar to the Fermat primality test and the Solovay–Strassen primality test. It is of historical significance in the search...
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  • probably prime. The simplest probabilistic primality test is the Fermat primality test (actually a compositeness test). It works as follows: Given an integer...
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  • The Solovay–Strassen primality test, developed by Robert M. Solovay and Volker Strassen in 1977, is a probabilistic primality test to determine if a number...
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  • and 64 − 1 = 63 = 7 × 9 is a multiple of 7. Fermat's little theorem is the basis for the Fermat primality test and is one of the fundamental results of elementary...
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  • In mathematics, the Lucas–Lehmer test (LLT) is a primality test for Mersenne numbers. The test was originally developed by Édouard Lucas in 1878 and subsequently...
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  • Standard probabilistic primality tests such as the Baillie–PSW primality test, the Fermat primality test, and the Miller–Rabin primality test also produce compositeness...
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  • passes the Fermat primality test for the base a {\displaystyle a} . The false statement that all numbers that pass the Fermat primality test for base 2...
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    GIMPS adopted a Fermat primality test with basis a=3as an alternative option for primality testing, while keeping the Lucas–Lehmer test as a double-check...
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  • primality test? More unsolved problems in mathematics The Baillie–PSW primality test is a probabilistic or possibly deterministic primality testing algorithm...
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  • Fermat number Fermat point Fermat–Weber problem Fermat polygonal number theorem Fermat polynomial Fermat primality test Fermat pseudoprime Fermat quintic threefold...
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  • test with a Fermat primality test, say, to base 2, one can obtain very powerful probabilistic tests for primality, such as the Baillie–PSW primality test...
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  • {\displaystyle N} is prime. It produces a primality certificate to be found with less effort than the Lucas primality test, which requires the full factorization...
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  • Prime95 (category Primality tests)
    be claimed and distributed by GIMPS. Prime95 tests numbers for primality using the Fermat primality test (referred to internally as PRP, or "probable...
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  • The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal–Kayal–Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created...
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  • Fermat numbers' size, it is difficult to factorize or even to check primality. Pépin's test gives a necessary and sufficient condition for primality of...
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  • Pépin's test is a primality test, which can be used to determine whether a Fermat number is prime. It is a variant of Proth's test. The test is named...
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  • Baillie–PSW primality test Miller–Rabin primality test Lucas–Lehmer primality test Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne numbers AKS primality test Pollard's p − 1...
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    called primality. A simple but slow method of checking the primality of a given number ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠, called trial division, tests whether...
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  • curve primality testing techniques, or elliptic curve primality proving (ECPP), are among the quickest and most widely used methods in primality proving...
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  • In computational number theory, the Lucas test is a primality test for a natural number n; it requires that the prime factors of n − 1 be already known...
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    strict converse of Fermat's Little Theorem does not hold. This fact precludes the use of that theorem as an absolute test of primality. The Carmichael numbers...
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  • Wonderlic Test Iq test Trust metric Ames test Chi-squared test Draize test Dixon's Q test F-test Fisher's exact test GRIM test Kolmogorov–Smirnov test Kuiper's...
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  • mathematics, the Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel test is a primality test for numbers of the form N = k · 2n − 1 with odd k < 2n. The test was developed by Hans Riesel and...
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  • test to determine whether a given Mersenne number is prime: the Lucas–Lehmer primality test (LLT), which makes it much easier to test the primality of...
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  • instead of primes. On the other hand, deterministic primality tests, such as the AKS primality test, do not give false positives; because of this, there...
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  • Primality Testing for Beginners is an undergraduate-level mathematics book on primality tests, methods for testing whether a given number is a prime number...
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  • In computational number theory, the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test is an algorithm for determining whether a number is prime. Unlike other, more...
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  • Wilson's theorem (category Primality tests)
    that is, the result. In practice, Wilson's theorem is useless as a primality test because computing (n − 1)! modulo n for large n is computationally complex...
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  • quadratic sieve) and can be combined with the Fermat primality test to give the stronger Miller–Rabin primality test. The identity also holds in inner product...
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