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  2. Trial division - Wikipedia

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    A definite bound on the prime factors is possible. Suppose P i is the i 'th prime, so that P 1 = 2, P 2 = 3, P 3 = 5, etc. Then the last prime number worth testing as a possible factor of n is P i where P 2 i + 1 > n; equality here would mean that P i + 1 is a factor. Thus, testing with 2, 3, and 5 suffices up to n = 48 not just 25 because the ...

  3. Generation of primes - Wikipedia

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    A prime sieve or prime number sieve is a fast type of algorithm for finding primes. There are many prime sieves. The simple sieve of Eratosthenes (250s BCE), the sieve of Sundaram (1934), the still faster but more complicated sieve of Atkin [1] (2003), sieve of Pritchard (1979), and various wheel sieves [2] are most common.

  4. Integer factorization - Wikipedia

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    Continuing this process until every factor is prime is called prime factorization; the result is always unique up to the order of the factors by the prime factorization theorem. To factorize a small integer n using mental or pen-and-paper arithmetic, the simplest method is trial division : checking if the number is divisible by prime numbers 2 ...

  5. Fermat's factorization method - Wikipedia

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    Suppose N has more than two prime factors. That procedure first finds the factorization with the least values of a and b . That is, a + b {\displaystyle a+b} is the smallest factor ≥ the square-root of N , and so a − b = N / ( a + b ) {\displaystyle a-b=N/(a+b)} is the largest factor ≤ root- N .

  6. Fermat number - Wikipedia

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    As of 2024, it is known that F n is composite for 5 ≤ n ≤ 32, although of these, complete factorizations of F n are known only for 0 ≤ n ≤ 11, and there are no known prime factors for n = 20 and n = 24. [5] The largest Fermat number known to be composite is F 18233954, and its prime factor 7 × 2 18233956 + 1 was discovered in October 2020.

  7. Euclidean algorithm - Wikipedia

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    For example, 6 and 35 factor as 6 = 2 × 3 and 35 = 5 × 7, so they are not prime, but their prime factors are different, so 6 and 35 are coprime, with no common factors other than 1. A 24×60 rectangle is covered with ten 12×12 square tiles, where 12 is the GCD of 24 and 60.

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  9. Miller–Rabin primality test - Wikipedia

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    From this we deduce that A = gcd(x − 1, n) and B = gcd(x + 1, n) are nontrivial (not necessarily prime) factors of n (in fact, since n is odd, these factors are coprime and n = AB). Hence, if factoring is a goal, these gcd calculations can be inserted into the algorithm at little additional computational cost.