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  2. Trial division - Wikipedia

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    Trial division is the most laborious but easiest to understand of the integer factorization algorithms. The essential idea behind trial division tests to see if an integer n, the integer to be factored, can be divided by each number in turn that is less than or equal to the square root of n.

  3. Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    In the example given above that is achieved on identifying 11 as next prime, giving a list of all primes less than or equal to 80. Note that numbers that will be discarded by a step are still used while marking the multiples in that step, e.g., for the multiples of 3 it is 3 × 3 = 9 , 3 × 5 = 15 , 3 × 7 = 21 , 3 × 9 = 27 , ..., 3 × 15 = 45 ...

  4. Category:Unsolved problems in number theory - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ... Prime triplet; Problems involving arithmetic progressions; R.

  5. Decision problem - Wikipedia

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    A classic example of a decidable decision problem is the set of prime numbers. It is possible to effectively decide whether a given natural number is prime by testing every possible nontrivial factor. Although much more efficient methods of primality testing are known, the existence of any effective method is enough to establish decidability.

  6. Primality test - Wikipedia

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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 integer factorization, primality tests do not generally give prime factors, only stating whether the input number is prime or not.

  7. Generation of primes - Wikipedia

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    A prime sieve works by creating a list of all integers up to a desired limit and progressively removing composite numbers (which it directly generates) until only primes are left. This is the most efficient way to obtain a large range of primes; however, to find individual primes, direct primality tests are more efficient [ citation needed ] .

  8. Sieve of Atkin - Wikipedia

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    The following is pseudocode which combines Atkin's algorithms 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 [1] by using a combined set s of all the numbers modulo 60 excluding those which are multiples of the prime numbers 2, 3, and 5, as per the algorithms, for a straightforward version of the algorithm that supports optional bit-packing of the wheel; although not specifically mentioned in the referenced paper, this ...

  9. Lists of problems - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... The following articles contain lists of problems: List of philosophical problems;