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RE: Notebook for Primes

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  • Subject: [mg36031] RE: [mg35992] Notebook for Primes
  • From: "Jeff Dillon" <jeffdi at fidalgo.net>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:22:54 -0400 (EDT)
  • Reply-to: jeffdi at fidalgo.net
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I only wanted the algorithm out of intellectual curiousity.

Jeff

>The oldest algorithm for testing primes... the Sieve of Eratosthenes...
>is polynomial and deterministic.  It's simply too slow to use, just like
>the one at the attachment.
>
>Bobby
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Dillon [mailto:jeffdi at fidalgo.net] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:14 AM
>Subject: [mg36031] [mg35992] Notebook for Primes
>
>
>Is there a publicly available Mathematica 3.0 notebook that implements 
>the Primes is in P?
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>http://www.msnbc.com/news/792126.asp
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