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Primality test
/* Primality test.
*
* Copyright (C) 2013 Chen-Pang He <jdh8@ms63.hinet.net>
* Don’t copy-paste the email. It won’t work.
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
uint32_t powmod (uint32_t base, uint32_t exp, uint32_t mod)
{
uint32_t res = 1;
base %= mod;
while (exp) {
if (exp % 2)
res = res * (uint64_t)base % mod;
exp /= 2;
base = base * (uint64_t)base % mod;
}
return res;
}
/* Deterministic Miller-Rabin primality test */
int isPrime (uint32_t n)
{
uint32_t d, r, s;
switch (n) {
case 0:
case 1:
return 0;
case 2:
return 1;
}
d = n - 1;
s = 0;
while (d % 2 == 0) {
d /= 2;
++s;
}
for (r=0; r<s; ++r) {
if (powmod(2, d, n) == 1 || powmod(2, d << r, n) == n - 1 ||
powmod(7, d, n) == 1 || powmod(7, d << r, n) == n - 1 ||
powmod(61, d, n) == 1 || powmod(61, d << r, n) == n - 1)
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
uint32_t n;
if (argc != 2) {
printf("Usage: %s num\n", argv[0]);
puts("Test if num is prime.\n"
"Warning: This program may crash if num overflows uint32_t.");
return 1;
}
n = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 10);
if (isPrime(n))
printf("%u is prime.\n", n);
else
printf("%u is composite.\n", n);
return 0;
}
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