[needs-packaging] primegen
Bug #237582 reported by
Jonas Kölker
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Ubuntu |
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Ubuntu doesn't include D. J. Bernstein's primegen, which can generate primes larger than 2**32. The default $(which primes) complains about such numbers being too large. Also, Bernstein's generator is (according to himself) the second-fastest in the world, and I doubt that $(which primes) is the fastest ;)
Bernstein has released all his code into the public domain (http://
The project page is http://
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