/* * mersenne - perform a primality test of 2^p-1, for prime p>1 * * Copyright (C) 1999 David I. Bell and Landon Curt Noll * * Primary author: David I. Bell * * Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under * the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General * Public License for more details. * * A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is * distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have * received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * Under source code control: 1991/05/22 21:56:36 * File existed as early as: 1991 * * Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/ */ /* * NOTE: See lucas.cal for a more general routine. */ define mersenne(p) { local u, i, p_mask; /* firewall */ if (! isint(p)) quit "p is not an integer"; /* two is a special case */ if (p == 2) return 1; /* if p is not prime, then 2^p-1 is not prime */ if (! ptest(p,1)) return 0; /* lltest: u(i+1) = u(i)^2 - 2 mod 2^p-1 */ u = 4; for (i = 2; i < p; ++i) { u = hnrmod(u^2 - 2, 1, p, -1); } /* 2^p-1 is prime iff u(p) = 0 mod 2^p-1 */ return (u == 0); }