William Stein wrote:

>      > I checked and the docs for PrimeQ say it returns True if and only
>     if the
>      > input number is prime.  Been it points at the implementation notes,
>      > which describes the primality test they implement at it is only a
>      > pseudoprimality test.  I.e., Mathematica's PrimeQ is really like
>     Sage's
>      > is_pseudoprime, despite their very misleading docs.
> 
>     Yes, that is a big difference. I thought they had a function something
>     like 'ProbablyPrime[]' but perhaps not.
> 
> 
> There PrimeQ is just a probabilistic test, I think.

Yes, you are correct.


> Well I hope somebody convert them all.  There aren't too many.
> 
> William

That is now trac http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6808

Hopefully someone else can do this, as it is not something I am able to 
do. My knowledge of Sage is too small.

Dave






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