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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: prime proofs
Dave Wagner writes
... Here's a simple method, due to Pratt. ...
People were doing this fourty years before Pratt's paper.
See, for example, Dick Lehmer's 1933 paper Hunting Big Game
in the Theory of Numbers, where he describes
Dave Wagner writes
... Here's a simple method, due to Pratt. ...
People were doing this fourty years before Pratt's paper.
See, for example, Dick Lehmer's 1933 paper Hunting Big Game
in the Theory of Numbers, where he describes proving primality
for a 19 digit divisor of 2^95+1. It's on my
