Re: Proven Primes

[Bill Stewart]

And the proof?
Sorry, an exercise for the student. :-)
I thought that finding them was the hard part, and verifying one once found
was relatively easy.  I used the probable prime test in the Java BigInteger
package.  It sounds like, from some of the list traffic, that there are 
better tests.
Well, it's harder in that to find a prime or SG prime,
you need to try the probable prime test on bunch of candidates until one 
passes.

With the Java BigInteger probable prime package, can you specify what 
probability
it uses for primality (i.e. the probability is 2**-N or 4**-N, what's N?)



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