Proven Primes

[Bill Frantz]

At 2:04 AM -0800 3/7/03, Ben Laurie wrote:
>BTW, a terminology nit - a Sophie Germain prime is one such that p and
>2p+1 are prime - I'll be that what you've given me is one such that p
>and (p-1)/2 are prime, right?

Yes.  And I do know that the Sophie Germain prime is the smaller of the two
related primes.

Cheers - Bill


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