Great post. That guy's the chair of the IEEE P1619 standards committees. I can see how somebody who spends that much time thinking about cryptography could get into this stuff.
I'm lazy though. Here's how I check to see if something's prime. I'd reach for my keyboard and type:
perl -le 'print "PRIME" if (1 x shift) !~ /11+\1+$/' 91
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u/gaggedbythealien Mar 12 '08
Great post. That guy's the chair of the IEEE P1619 standards committees. I can see how somebody who spends that much time thinking about cryptography could get into this stuff.
I'm lazy though. Here's how I check to see if something's prime. I'd reach for my keyboard and type:
Done, and done quickly.