Pocklington primality test

In mathematics, the Pocklington–Lehmer primality test is a primality test devised by Henry Cabourn Pocklington[1] and Derrick Henry Lehmer.[2] The test uses a partial factorization of to prove that an integer is prime.

It produces a primality certificate to be found with less effort than the Lucas primality test, which requires the full factorization of .

  1. ^ Pocklington, Henry C. (1914–1916). "The determination of the prime or composite nature of large numbers by Fermat's theorem". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 18: 29–30. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  2. ^ D. H. Lehmer (1927). "Tests for primality by the converse of Fermat's theorem". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (3): 327–340. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1927-04368-3.