Truelly Random Numbers
jamesd at echeque.com
jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Mar 3 11:48:33 PST 1996
At 10:11 AM 3/3/96 -0500, Gary Howland wrote:
>Surely the process of counting up until you get a prime means
>that the chances of getting certain primes are greater than
>others (eg. 17 is more likely than 19) ?
In order to use this information, one would need to determine
the number of primes in the vicinity of a potential prime factor.
This costs more than actually checking for the factor, hence is
not useful.
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