A beautiful, elegant and surprising formula to identify prime numbers

2002/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Matematika

This has defined the algorithm presented by three Indian researchers. The algorithm serves to identify prime numbers. The research program of the Institute of Foreign Technology is almost perfect, but slower than the one currently used. Very large prime numbers are widely used in computing to encrypt data, and although the new algorithm does not yet serve to identify them, mathematicians have become fascinated. In fact, for the first time the first numbers have been described using a polynomial formula.