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Re: Fast way of checking for perfect squares?

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  • Subject: [mg83735] Re: Fast way of checking for perfect squares?
  • From: giovanni resta <g.restaCUT at CUTiit.cnr.it>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:28:58 -0500 (EST)
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michael.p.croucher at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Lets say I have a lot of large integers and I want to check to see
> which ones are perfect squares - eg

I've seen that Mathematica internally uses this function:

PerfectSquareQ[n_] :=
   JacobiSymbol[n, 13] =!= -1 && JacobiSymbol[n, 19] =!= -1 &&
    JacobiSymbol[n, 17] =!= -1 && JacobiSymbol[n, 23] =!= -1 &&
    IntegerQ[Sqrt[n]];

g.


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