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<H1>[pycrypto] Distribution of prime numbers?</H1>
<B>Dwayne C. Litzenberger</B>
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<I>Sun Oct 25 21:40:11 CST 2009</I>
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<PRE>On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:00:54PM -0400, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
><i> In other words: What is the a-priori probability of a number being
</I>><i> prime *before* we conduct any primality test?
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Approximations, lower, or upper bounds are all useful.
I'm under the impression that the number of Rabin-Miller iterations needed
to establish that a certain number is probably prime depends on the answer
to this question.
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