On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 02:51:18PM +0200, Jacco van Dorp wrote:

> I think the extra 9 characters of "_probable" are worth the extra accuracy.
>
> Dont teach people to lie in their function names. It's a bad example.
> and if you really want to lie, just

In what way is 

    is_probable_prime(11)  # returns True

less true than

    isprime(11)  # returns True

If you want to *lie*, then claiming that 11 is a probable prime is 
certainly a lie.


-- 
Steve
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