On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand exactly what check you did up to 2^64. Did
> you take all the (composite) base 2 strong pseudoprimes and then test
> that BPSW eliminates them all? If you consider that to be a reliable
> result, I could use this in FLINT-Lite to give a guaranteed primality
> test up to 2^64 could I not? Was there some trial factoring done
> first? If so, what was the limit?

Yes, I took all the composite base 2 pseudoprimes and tested them with
BPSW to ensure none of them were reported as pseudoprime.  We are
double checking the results to make sure we didn't miss any base 2
psp's but once that is done then yes using BPSW for anything under
2^64 would be a guaranteed primality test.

Are you asking if we do trial factoring first before BPSW?  Nicely's
BPSW code will actually try the primes < 1000 as trial prime divisors
first before doing the BPSW algorithm itself.

Jeff.

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