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Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:18:04 +0200
Zhang Ya-ming <yamn@public.bjnet.edu.cn> writes:
> But all these method can only declare a pesudo-prime, so you would
> get a true prime number in probability.
And that is okay. There is no way to do test for a "real" prime number
with a computer - the probability that cosmic radition switches one bit
in you memory is MUCH higher than the failure of several pseudo-prime tests.
Werner
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