Re: ERH - MSW primality test

From: Paul Leyland (paul_at_leyland.vispa.com)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: 15 Nov 2004 09:17:02 +0000

Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Sorry. I failed. All I got was a precis by M. C. Wunderlich that says
> "The author concludes with a discussion of another approach to prime
> testing in which the primality of a number passing the test depends
> only on the truth of a generally accepted but unproved hypothesis,
> such as the extended Riemann hypothesis."
>
> Which is worse than useless.

Well, if he ever finds a counter-example he will have disproved the
ERH. That's better than useless. 8-)

Paul 

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