On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:06:17PM -0500, J?rgen Tischer wrote:
> I think it's not a bug, it's a too slow algorithm. Have a look of timings on
> my Dell 8100
I don't think so since on my machine primep(80630964769); returns FALSE
and primep(80630965313); returns TRUE both in less than a second.
However they are both prime. Also the first one seems to return nearly
instantaneously whereas the second takes around a second to return a
positive answer. It seems some early abort strategy should not be
triggered there.
Just to add some information, I am using the maxima package from the
debian unstable which seems to use gcl version 2.4.0 as the underlying
lisp.
Hope this helps.
Cyril
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Cyril Guyot