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Recognizing Primes and Composites

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Given a large number, how might one quickly tell whether it is prime or composite? In this chapter we begin to answer this fundamental question.

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  1. Center for Advanced Computation, 3754 S.E. Knight Street, Portland, OR, 97202, USA

    Richard Crandall

  2. Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, 03755-3551, USA

    Carl Pomerance

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Crandall, R., Pomerance, C. (2001). Recognizing Primes and Composites. In: Prime Numbers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9316-0_3

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