Additional awesome news!

[Jon Hall]

Subject: [Grads] primality testing
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:53:16 -0700
From: "Phokion G. Kolaitis" <kolaitis at cs.ucsc.edu>
To: faculty at cse.ucsc.edu, grads at cse.ucsc.edu


Three researchers (Agarwal, Naxena, Kaya) in India have just produced 
a techinal report with a polynomial-time algorithm for primality
testing.
If correct, this is one of the most stunning development
in computer science.

The announcement and the report are available at

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.html

Phokion


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