Re: Re: Finding a relative prime (corrected)
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- Subject: [mg19723] Re: [mg19697] Re: [mg19682] Finding a relative prime (corrected)
- From: "Andrzej Kozlowski" <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:40:56 -0400
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As so often happens, looking at my own message I noticed a silly bug. The
correct code should have been of course:
randompick[q_?PrimeQ] :=
Select[Range[2, q - 1],
GCD[q, #] == 1 &][[Random[Integer, {1, EulerPhi[q-1] - 1}]]]
(Note that for a prime q we have EulerPhi[q]==q-1)
Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
JAPAN
http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp
http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp
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>From: "Andrzej Kozlowski" <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg19723] [mg19697] Re: [mg19682] Finding a relative prime (corrected)
>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:36:04 -0400
>
> Sorry, I answered to quickly and misunderstood your question. Of course you
> want a number relatively prime to q , not a prime number. So the correct
> code is:
>
> randompick[q_?PrimeQ] :=
> Module[{l}, (l = Select[Range[2, q - 1], GCD[q, #] == 1 &])[[Random[
> Integer, {1, Length[l]}]]]]
>
> E.g:
>
> In[23]:=
> randompick[Prime[1000]]
> Out[23]=
> 552
>
> Actually one can simplify this a bit by using th ebuilt in function
> EulerPhi, where EulerPhi[n] is the number of positive integers less than n
> which are relatively prime to n. Then the code becomes:
>
> randompick[q_?PrimeQ] :=
> Select[Range[2, q - 1],
> GCD[q, #] == 1 &][[Random[Integer, {1, EulerPhi[q] - 1}]]]
>
>
>
> --
> Andrzej Kozlowski
> Toyama International University
> JAPAN
> http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp
> http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp
>
>
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>>From: Timur Tabi <nospam_timur at tabi.org>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>>Subject: [mg19723] [mg19697] [mg19682] Finding a relative prime
>>Date: Thu, Sep 9, 1999, 3:19 PM
>>
>
>> 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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>> Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur at tabi.org
>>
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