Re: Proth's Test (was: Re: Mersenne: Evil, evil prize thread)

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 11:15:51PM +0100, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
>The other factor in evaluating this is that, in Proth's Test, a has 
>got to be an odd prime - if you pick the wrong prime, you're wasting 
>time, though fortunately this can usually be detected very early.

Hopefully, considering that most primes are odd! ;-)
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