[plt-scheme] fast primality testing
On 7/7/05, Will Farr <wmfarr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There's a couple examples of this sort of thing in SICP
> (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html#%25_sec_1.2.6
> ); they have an exact algorithm and a probabilistic algorithm. The
> probabilistic algorithm is the one you want, and it's really simple.
> Certainly good enough for 17 digits in a flash.
>
Hi --
It's high time for AKS in Scheme!!
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AKSPrimalityTest.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
Anything else is automatically declared "old hat"! :-)
Cheers
Henry