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The next day, an NVIDIA H100 in San Antonio confirmed the finding with a primality test called the Lucas-Lehmer test, per the statement.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford The first primality tests using randomized algorithms (based on refinements to Fermat’s little theorem) ushered in a new era.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
It’s fundamental to primality testing methods, and all the cryptology that goes with that.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
Finding prime numbers is well-studied, and in this case Gedanke used a method called Baillie-PSW primality testing.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2019
As numbers get bigger, the list of numbers that could divide them grows longer — there are more ways primality can fail in big numbers than in small numbers.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford The first primality tests using randomized algorithms (based on refinements to Fermat’s little theorem) ushered in a new era.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
It’s fundamental to primality testing methods, and all the cryptology that goes with that.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2022
Finding prime numbers is well-studied, and in this case Gedanke used a method called Baillie-PSW primality testing.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2019
As numbers get bigger, the list of numbers that could divide them grows longer — there are more ways primality can fail in big numbers than in small numbers.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
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“Primality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primality. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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