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SIDDHARTHA D KASHYAP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
JANUARY 18, 2003
PUNE: Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal, who hit global headlines
last year by unravelling a long-standing mystery of prime numbers,
does not plan to
William Knowles wrote:
Prime numbers (such as 1, 5, 11, 37...) are divisible only by
themselves or 1. While smaller prime numbers are easy to make out, for
very large numbers, there never had been a formula for primality
testing until August 2002.
Doh! This is so untrue. The point is that
Ben Laurie wrote:
William Knowles wrote:
Prime numbers (such as 1, 5, 11, 37...) are divisible only by
themselves or 1. While smaller prime numbers are easy to make out, for
very large numbers, there never had been a formula for primality
testing until August 2002.
Doh! This is so untrue.
- Original Message -
From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: William Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Prime numbers guru 'factors' down success
William Knowles wrote:
Prime numbers (such as 1, 5, 11, 37
