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Re: How do I do very big integer computing by Mathematica?

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  • Subject: [mg115375] Re: How do I do very big integer computing by Mathematica?
  • From: a boy <avvboy at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 02:19:42 -0500 (EST)

I asked how to do  very-big-integer computing. For example:
Mod[2^2^64,1342352]
It's pity, this code causes overflow!
is there some funtions like this: StringMod["111...111","345"]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "a boy" <avvboy at gmail.com>
> > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> > Sent: Saturday, January 8, 2011 2:37:07 AM
> > Subject: [mg115335] How do I do very big integer computing by
> Mathematica?
> > I'm going to search big Fibonacci prime numbers. I think there is a
> > simple primality test algorithm for Fibonacci number, like Lucas=96
> > Lehmer primality test for 2^n-1 . I'm lazy and don't want to write
> > many codes. So i want to ask:
> >
> > p=43,112,609;
> > s[0]=4;
> > s[n_]:=s[n-1]^2-4
> > pt=Mod[s[p-2], 2^p-1]==0
> >
> > how do I compute s[43,112,609-2] directly? It seems the largest
> > integer in M~ is 2^32^32, isn't it?
>
> Not exactly certain what you want to do from that description. But
> something that might help is to interleave Mod[] operations provided the
> modulus is not too large for Mathematica.
>
> Daniel Lichtblau
> Wolfram Research
>
>
>


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