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The first deterministic primality test significantly faster than the naive methods was the cyclotomy test; its runtime can be proven to be O((log n) c log log log n), where n is the number to test for primality and c is a constant independent of n. Many further improvements were made, but none could be proven to have polynomial running time.
The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal–Kayal–Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena, computer scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, on August 6, 2002, in an article titled "PRIMES is in P". [1]
⎕CR 'PrimeNumbers' ⍝ Show APL user-function PrimeNumbers Primes ← PrimeNumbers N ⍝ Function takes one right arg N (e.g., show prime numbers for 1 ... int N) Primes ← (2 =+ ⌿ 0 = (⍳ N) ∘. |⍳ N) / ⍳ N ⍝ The Ken Iverson one-liner PrimeNumbers 100 ⍝ Show all prime numbers from 1 to 100 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 ...
Because the set of primes is a computably enumerable set, by Matiyasevich's theorem, it can be obtained from a system of Diophantine equations. Jones et al. (1976) found an explicit set of 14 Diophantine equations in 26 variables, such that a given number k + 2 is prime if and only if that system has a solution in nonnegative integers: [7]
Suppose we wish to determine whether n = 221 is prime.Randomly pick 1 < a < 220, say a = 38.We check the above congruence and find that it holds: = (). Either 221 is prime, or 38 is a Fermat liar, so we take another a, say 24:
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, 1 × 5 or 5 × 1, involve 5 itself. However, 4 is composite because it is a ...
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We continue recursively in this manner until we reach a number known to be prime, such as 2. We end up with a tree of prime numbers, each associated with a witness a. For example, here is a complete Pratt certificate for the number 229: 229 (a = 6, 229 − 1 = 2 2 × 3 × 19), 2 (known prime), 3 (a = 2, 3 − 1 = 2), 2 (known prime),