Tuesday, October 19, 2010

6.3, due on October 20

1. I didn't understand the concept of pseudoprime or strong pseudoprime. It would be nice if you could explain that in class for a minute. Also, I didn't quite grasp the part where it talks about why the Miller-Rabin primality test works.

2. Even though I didn't understand why it worked, I think the Miller-Rabin primality test is really cool. I also think it's interesting that we can say that a number is "probably prime." I didn't catch in the reading how "probable" it actually is.

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