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  2. Formula for primes - Wikipedia

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    It is known that no non-constant polynomial function P(n) with integer coefficients exists that evaluates to a prime number for all integers n. The proof is as follows: suppose that such a polynomial existed. Then P(1) would evaluate to a prime p, so () ().

  3. Integer factorization - Wikipedia

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    Prime decomposition of n = 864 as 2 5 × 3 3. By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, every positive integer has a unique prime factorization. (By convention, 1 is the empty product.) Testing whether the integer is prime can be done in polynomial time, for example, by the AKS primality test. If composite, however, the polynomial time tests ...

  4. Polynomial - Wikipedia

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    Every polynomial function is continuous, smooth, and entire. The evaluation of a polynomial is the computation of the corresponding polynomial function; that is, the evaluation consists of substituting a numerical value to each indeterminate and carrying out the indicated multiplications and additions.

  5. Cyclotomic polynomial - Wikipedia

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    Over a finite field with a prime number p of elements, for any integer n that is not a multiple of p, the cyclotomic polynomial factorizes into () irreducible polynomials of degree d, where () is Euler's totient function and d is the multiplicative order of p modulo n.

  6. Euclid's lemma - Wikipedia

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    The two first subsections, are proofs of the generalized version of Euclid's lemma, namely that: if n divides ab and is coprime with a then it divides b. The original Euclid's lemma follows immediately, since, if n is prime then it divides a or does not divide a in which case it is coprime with a so per the generalized version it divides b.

  7. Pollard's rho algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The ρ algorithm was a good choice for F 8 because the prime factor p = 1238926361552897 is much smaller than the other factor. The factorization took 2 hours on a UNIVAC 1100/42 . [ 4 ]

  8. Legendre's formula - Wikipedia

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    Since ! is the product of the integers 1 through n, we obtain at least one factor of p in ! for each multiple of p in {,, …,}, of which there are ⌊ ⌋.Each multiple of contributes an additional factor of p, each multiple of contributes yet another factor of p, etc. Adding up the number of these factors gives the infinite sum for (!

  9. Mason–Stothers theorem - Wikipedia

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    A corollary of the Mason–Stothers theorem is the analog of Fermat's Last Theorem for function fields: if a(t) n + b(t) n = c(t) n for a, b, c relatively prime polynomials over a field of characteristic not dividing n and n > 2 then either at least one of a, b, or c is 0 or they are all constant.