• mathematics, the Pocklington–Lehmer primality test is a primality test devised by Henry Cabourn Pocklington and Derrick Henry Lehmer. The test uses a partial...
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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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  • A primality test is an algorithm for determining whether an input number is prime. Among other fields of mathematics, it is used for cryptography. Unlike...
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  • algorithm lucas_primality_test is input: n > 2, an odd integer to be tested for primality. k, a parameter that determines the accuracy of the test. output: prime...
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  • The Miller–Rabin primality test or Rabin–Miller primality test is a probabilistic primality test: an algorithm which determines whether a given number...
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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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  • science, a primality certificate or primality proof is a succinct, formal proof that a number is prime. Primality certificates allow the primality of a number...
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  • is the number of times we test a random a, and n is the value we want to test for primality; see Miller–Rabin primality test for details. There are infinitely...
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  • Brillhart–Lehmer–Selfridge 1975 (see Pocklington primality test) are used. The algorithm is very similar to the Lucas–Lehmer test, but with a variable starting...
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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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  • variants of Pocklington primality test, while probable primes can be generated with probabilistic primality tests such as the Baillie–PSW primality test or the...
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  • Provable prime (category Primality tests)
    calculated to be prime using a primality-proving algorithm. Boot-strapping techniques using Pocklington primality test are the most common ways to generate...
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  • to number theory with the discovery of Pocklington's primality test in 1914 and the invention of Pocklington's algorithm. He also derived the first equation...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • There is no special primality test for safe primes the way there is for Fermat primes and Mersenne primes. However, Pocklington's criterion can be used...
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  • Proth's theorem (category Primality tests)
    number theory, Proth's theorem is a theorem which forms the basis of a primality test for Proth numbers (sometimes called Proth Numbers of the First Kind)...
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  • digits of n) with the AKS primality test. In addition, there are several probabilistic algorithms that can test primality very quickly in practice if...
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  • test (QFT) is a probabilistic primality test to determine whether a number is a probable prime. It is named after Ferdinand Georg Frobenius. The test...
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    Sieve of Eratosthenes (category Primality tests)
    is the sieve's key distinction from using trial division to sequentially test each candidate number for divisibility by each prime. Once all the multiples...
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  • v t e Number-theoretic algorithms Primality tests AKS APR Baillie–PSW Elliptic curve Pocklington Fermat Lucas Lucas–Lehmer Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel Proth's...
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  • v t e Number-theoretic algorithms Primality tests AKS APR Baillie–PSW Elliptic curve Pocklington Fermat Lucas Lucas–Lehmer Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel Proth's...
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  • Sieve of Atkin (category Primality tests)
    reduce computation where those computations would never pass the modulo tests anyway (i.e. would produce even numbers, or multiples of 3 or 5): limit...
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  • randomized primality test (i.e., determining the primality of a number). Soon afterwards Michael O. Rabin demonstrated that the 1976 Miller's primality test could...
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  • P(6542) = 65521 for unsigned sixteen-bit integers. That would suffice to test primality for numbers up to 655372 = 4,295,098,369. Preparing such a table (usually...
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  • with the Newton method and checking each integer result for primality (AKS primality test). Ekerå, Martin (June 2021). "On completely factoring any integer...
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  • v t e Number-theoretic algorithms Primality tests AKS APR Baillie–PSW Elliptic curve Pocklington Fermat Lucas Lucas–Lehmer Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel Proth's...
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    v t e Number-theoretic algorithms Primality tests AKS APR Baillie–PSW Elliptic curve Pocklington Fermat Lucas Lucas–Lehmer Lucas–Lehmer–Riesel Proth's...
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