On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 17:00, Cyril Guyot wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:01:37PM -0500, James Amundson wrote:
> > Wow. I admire your patience. How long did it take
> > primep(340282366762482138434845932244680310783)
> > to finish? I lost patience after 30 minutes or so.
>
> It took less than a second and returned FALSE. I suspect it is not
> actually passing the first pseudo-prime test that Juergen mentioned
> earlier. (Btw, what do you mean by pseudo-prime test? Is it just a
> regular Miller-Rabin test or something else? )
>
> > I use Clisp or CMUCL. It looks like a GCL bug, but it will require a
> > little more investigation.
There was a typo there. I meant "IF I use Clisp or CMUCL." I see the bug
if I use GCL. Sorry for the confusion.
> It looks likely to be a gcl bug since I am the only one who seems to get
> those errors. If I am needed for any kind of debugging task, I have some
> spare time at the moment, so you are welcome to ask me.
Thanks. I can reproduce the bug. I would appreciate it if you would
enter the bug in the bug tracking system at
<http://sf.net/projects/maxima>;, though. Be sure to include the two
shorter primes.
Thanks again,
Jim