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| | NMBRTHRY Archives -- April 2002 (#4) |
 | | So, for example, just taking a random implementation of the strong pseudoprime test of Artyuhov and Selfridge (often called the Miller-Rabin test), it is certainly possible that a composite number can be declared prime, yet the same composite number, in most other runs, would be found out as composite. |
 | | To pass this test, the number n must be a strong pseudoprime base 2, and to be a Lucas pseudoprime for a canonical Lucas sequence with the least discriminant D (in absolute value) for which (D/n) = -1. |
 | | No one has ever found a composite number which passes this test, and a prize of $620 is offered for an example, with the prime factorization. |
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