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 | | There are 1,091,987,405 primes less than 25,000,000,000; but only 21,853 pseudoprimes base two [PSW80], so Henri Cohen joked that 2-PRP's are "industrial grade primes" [Pomerance84, p5]. |
 | | There may be relatively few pseudoprimes, but there are still infinitely many of them for every base a>1, so we need a tougher test. |
 | | Jon Grantham's "Frobenius pseudoprimes" can be used to create a test (see [Grantham98]) that takes three times as long as the SPRP test, but is far more than three times as strong (the error rate is less than 1/7710). |
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