Producing Primitive Polynomials
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- Subject: [mg14505] Producing Primitive Polynomials
- From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:33:07 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In Numerical Recipes In C (2nd edition, page 331 in section 7.7) I read about Primitive Polynomials and Sobol sequences. The book says an 'n' order primitive polynomial is an 'n' order modulo 2 polynomial that can not be factored using modulo 2 arithmetic. On the same page of this book there is a table containing all information needed to determine the coefficients of all primitive polynomials up to order 10. How would one do this with Mathematica? Cheers, Ted Ersek