2009/11/15 William Stein <[email protected]>

>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:31 PM, gerrob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I've uploaded a new code on google group. It is using remainder tree
> > to speedup the sieving, and now it is sieving up to about log2(n)^2.
> > It means a speedup by a factor of two for large "random" input (here
> > random means that nextprime(n) isn't very close to n). For totally
> > random inputs it is faster than the currently code from approximately
> > 1300 bits numbers.
>
> Quick naive question -- is this command finding the next pseudoprime,
> or is it really the next prime (provably correctly)?   A time of 131
> seconds for finding the next prime (not pseudoprime) after 10^2000
> would I think be very, very impressive to me.
>
> William
>
> >
> > Just two inputs, on my PC: (the input numbers are special, but neither
> > of codes recognize/use this)
> >
> > N=10^2000
> > mpir's time=229 sec.
> > my method's time=131 sec.
> > diff=0,nextprime(N)-N=4561
> >
> > N=10^4000
> > mpir's time=4551 sec.
> > my method's time=2281 sec.
> > diff=0,nextprime(N)-N=16483
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
> >
>
No, my code gives "only" a pseudoprime. But note that the gmp's nextprime
function gives also a pseudoprime (the naming isn't perfect).

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