Empirical Results on a Randomized Cubic Primality Test

In 1980, Baillie and Wagstaff proposed a novel primality test consisting of a strong Fermat base $2$ test and a standard or strong Lucas test (Baillie and Wagstaff, 1980). This test has come to be known as the Baillie-PSW test after the names of its creators, and is now commonly included in software for mathematics,… Continue reading Empirical Results on a Randomized Cubic Primality Test