Re: Finding a relative prime
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- Subject: [mg19696] Re: [mg19682] Finding a relative prime
- From: "Andrzej Kozlowski" <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:36:03 -0400
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One way to do this (modulo the well known limitation of PrimeQ) is:
randompick[q_?PrimeQ] :=
Module[{l}, (l = Select[Range[2, q - 1], PrimeQ])[[Random[
Integer, {1, Length[l]}]]]]
For example:
In[16]:=
randompick[Prime[1000]]
Out[16]=
59
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Andrzej Kozlowski
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>From: Timur Tabi <nospam_timur at tabi.org>
>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg19696] [mg19682] Finding a relative prime
>Date: Thu, Sep 9, 1999, 3:19 PM
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> I'm using Mathematica 3.0 for the Mac, and I'm trying to figure out how
> to get it to pick a random number that is relatively prime to another
> number, p-1, where p is prime. In other words, pick a random number k
> such that 1) k is between 2 and p-1, and 2) k is relatively prime to p-1.
> How can I do that in Mathematica 3.0?
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