8/08/2002

An interesting paper claims to show that Primality Testing is calculable in "polynomial-time". On August 6, M. Agrawal, N. Kayal, and N. Saxena, all of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, posted a paper entitled Primes is in P. They prove that the calculating time is O(ln12n), proportional to the 12th power of the natural logarithm of the number being tested.

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