mersennetest.frink

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// Program to prove primality of Mersenne primes using the Lucas-Lehmer test.
// This proves primality.
// 
//  Note:  The contrived use of isStrongPseudoprime is now totally obsolete
// because Frink's isPrime routine now automatically recognizes Mersenne
// primes and performs a Lucas-Lehmer test on them, proving their primality
// in approximately the same time as a single round of isStrongPseudoprime[]
// might run. 

use LucasLehmer.frink

primes = array[select[2 to 100000, {|x| isPrime[x]}]]

// Some sample sieving.
for i = 1 to 100000
{
   nn = 2^i-1
   if isPrime[i]
   {
      start = now[]
      print["$i\t"]
//      for p = primes
//      {
//         for k = 1 to 10
//         {
//         q = 2 k p + 1
//         res = q mod 8
//         if ((res == 1) || (res == 7))
//            if (nn-1) mod q == 0
//               println["Eliminated by $q in "+ (now[]-start -> "ms")];
//         }
//      }
         
      if (! isStrongPseudoprime[nn, 3])
      {
         end = now[]
         println["discarded in " + (end-start -> "ms")];
      } else
      if isMersennePrime[i]
      {
         end = now[]
         println[(end-start -> "ms")];
      }
   }
}


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This is a program written in the programming language Frink.
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