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The first part of the book concludes with chapter 4, on the history of prime numbers and primality testing, including the prime number theorem (in a weakened form), applications of prime numbers in cryptography, and the widely used Miller–Rabin primality test, which runs in randomized polynomial time. [5]
The Miller–Rabin primality test or Rabin–Miller primality test is a probabilistic primality test: an algorithm which determines whether a given 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 for a polynomial-time deterministic ...
The Miller–Rabin and the Solovay–Strassen primality tests are simple and are much faster than other general primality tests. One method of improving efficiency further in some cases is the Frobenius pseudoprimality test ; a round of this test takes about three times as long as a round of Miller–Rabin, but achieves a probability bound ...
A strong pseudoprime is a composite number that passes the Miller–Rabin primality test. All prime numbers pass this test, but a small fraction of composites also pass, making them " pseudoprimes ". Unlike the Fermat pseudoprimes , for which there exist numbers that are pseudoprimes to all coprime bases (the Carmichael numbers ), there are no ...
The Miller–Rabin primality test uses the following extension of Fermat's little theorem: [14] If p is an odd prime and p − 1 = 2 s d with s > 0 and d odd > 0, then for every a coprime to p, either a d ≡ 1 (mod p) or there exists r such that 0 ≤ r < s and a 2 r d ≡ −1 (mod p).
As mentioned above, most applications use a Miller–Rabin or Baillie–PSW test for primality. Sometimes a Fermat test (along with some trial division by small primes) is performed first to improve performance. GMP since version 3.0 uses a base-210 Fermat test after trial division and before running Miller–Rabin tests.
"The Miller-Rabin primality test and Solovay-Strassen primality test are more sophisticated variants which detect all composites" If the methods detect all composites, why are they categorized as probabilistic rather than deterministic? Joestynes 08:31, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) These two categories are unrelated.
k applications of the Miller–Rabin primality test declare a composite n to be probably prime with a probability at most (1/4) k. There is a similar probability estimate for the strong Lucas probable prime test. [9]