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Feature #16468

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Switch to Miller-Rabin for Prime.prime?

Added by steveb3210 (Stephen Blackstone) about 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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[ruby-core:96600]

Description

The miller-rabin algorithm is a non-deterministic primality test, however it is known that below 2**64, you can always get a deterministic answer by only checking a=[2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23, 29, 31, 37]

Given that Prime.prime? would never respond in a reasonable amount of time for larger numbers, we can gain much more utility and performance by switching..

                                               user     system      total        real
miller_rabin: random set                   0.150000   0.000000   0.150000 (  0.152212)
Prime.prime?: random set                   0.270000   0.000000   0.270000 (  0.281257)

                                               user     system      total        real
miller_rabin: 16 digits                    0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.000300)
Prime.prime? 16 digits                     2.200000   0.020000   2.220000 (  2.368247)

                                               user     system      total        real
miller_rabin: 2-10000                      0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.035752)
Prime.prime? 2-10000                       0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.022948)

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prime_patch.diff (2.5 KB) prime_patch.diff steveb3210 (Stephen Blackstone), 02/20/2020 07:19 PM
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