[Haskell-cafe] Elementary math question: primality test for huge numbers

[Tikhon Jelvis]

If you don't mind using an external package, you can take a look
Math.NumberTheory.Primes and related modules in the arithmoi[1] package.
I've used it successfully for some small tasks, so I haven't come close to
stress-testing it, but the interface was fine.

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/arithmoi

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Patrick Chilton <chpatrick at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Haskell also includes the primality testing functions of the GMP library
> on Integers, but they're MagicHashed for some reason so handle with care:
>
>
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/integer-gmp-1.0.0.0/docs/GHC-Integer-GMP-Internals.html#g:12
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:38 AM, William Yager <will.yager at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> See section 4.4. http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/about/chap4.pdf
>>
>> --Will Yager
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Christopher Howard <ch.howard at zoho.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. I was working through a math chapter explaining the RSA algorithm,
>>> and I was implementing it in Haskell for learning sake. However, the
>>> chapter does not explain how you efficiently pick the two prime
>>> numbers. I scanned through the WP page on primality tests but it was
>>> somewhat overwhelming. What would be the standard primality test for
>>> this sort of application, and is it already built in to Base somewhere?
>>>
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