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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---