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Quote: while a deterministic, prime number predicate is probably exponential, a probabilistic predicate is linear

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Topic:
randomness
Topic:
probabilistic and randomized algorithms

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The Complexity … of exactly determining whether N is prime is … [# of digits]. … Rabin himself [in Traub, J. Algorithms and Complexity, 1976] gives an algorithm for determining … time as a function of D(N). This example … if one is willing to replace certainty with …   Google-1   Google-2

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