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Certifying Giant Nonprimes
Feb. 21, 2023, 9:48 p.m. |
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ePrint Report: Certifying Giant Nonprimes
Charlotte Hoffmann, Pavel Hubáček, Chethan Kamath, Krzysztof Pietrzak
GIMPS and PrimeGrid are large-scale distributed projects dedicated to searching giant prime numbers, usually of special forms like Mersenne and Proth. The numbers in the current search-space are millions of digits large and the participating volunteers need to run resource-consuming primality tests. Once a candidate prime $N$ has been found, the only way for another party to independently verify the primality of $N$ used to be by …
consuming current distributed eprint report forms large numbers party prime projects report run scale search space special tests verify volunteers
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