I am currently working on a 10 million digit prime number and it is 98% complete.
Was wondering if the software continues to test the number even if it is found to not be prime?
if you are trial factoring, AFAIK, it quits if it finds any factor. Note, not finding a factor does NOT mean the number is prime, however.
if you are running the lucas lehmer primality test, it has to run to completion and have a 0 remainder for the number to be considered a prime. until the very last iteration is complete, there is no way of knowing what the results will be.
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