Fermat number - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat_numberBecause of Fermat numbers' size, it is difficult to factorize or even to check primality. Pépin's test gives a necessary and sufficient condition for primality of Fermat numbers, and can be implemented by modern computers. The elliptic curve methodis a fast method for finding small prime divisors of numbers. Distributed computing project Fermatsearch has found some factors of Fermat numbers. Yves Gallot's proth.exe has been used to find factors of large Fermat numbe…
Fermat factoring status - Proth Search
www.prothsearch.com/fermat.htmlSelected references Factoring status at earlier stages. 1958 Raphael M. Robinson, A report on primes of the form k · 2 n + 1 and on factors of Fermat numbers, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1958), 673-681.PDF [38 prime factors known: complete list] ; 1964 Claude P. Wrathall, New factors of Fermat numbers, Math. Comp. 18 (1964), 324-325.
Fermat's method of factorisation
www.jstor.org › stable › 24496908FERMAT'S METHOD OF FACTORISATION 97 Fermat's method of factorisation PETER SHIU 1. Introduction On 7 April 1643, Fermat wrote the following intriguing letter (see [1]) to Mersenne: You ask whether the number 100895598169 is prime or not, and for a method to decide, within a day, whether it is prime or composite. To this question I answer that ...
Fermat's factorization method - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_factorization_methodOne tries various values of a, hoping that , a square. For example, to factor , the first try for a is the square root of 5959 rounded up to the next integer, which is 78. Then, . Since 125 is not a square, a second try is made by increasing the value of a by 1. The second attempt also fails, because 282 is again not a square. The third try produces the perfect square of 441. So, , , and the factors of 5959 are and .
The Fermat factorization method revisited
https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/318.pdfThe Fermat factorization method revisited Robert Erra∗ Christophe Grenier† 30th June 2009 Abstract We consider the well known Fermat factorization method, we call the Fermat factorization equation the equation solved by it: P(x,y) = (x + 2R)2 − y2 − 4N = 0; where N = pq > 0 is a RSA modulus with primes p and q supposed of equal length.
Fermat's method of factorisation
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24496908FERMAT'S METHOD OF FACTORISATION 97 Fermat's method of factorisation PETER SHIU 1. Introduction On 7 April 1643, Fermat wrote the following intriguing letter (see [1]) to Mersenne: You ask whether the number 100895598169 is prime or not, and for a method to decide, within a day, whether it is prime or composite. To this question I answer that ...
The Fermat factorization method revisited
eprint.iacr.org › 2009 › 318The Fermat factorization method is an iterative, or linear, search. For an integer N = pq, de Weger’s [4] has shown that the efficiency of the Fermat factorization method is governed by the ratio O(∆2 4n1/2) where ∆ = |p−q| is the prime difference. So, as it was pointed out by de Weger, if ∆ = O(N1/4) then the Fermat
Fermat's Factorisation Method
trans4mind.com › divisibilityFermatMathematics prime factorisation Fermat's Method. The above continues until we find our finishing point, which in the above case is when a=23, and b=22. Looking at the 4th column, "Difference", which shows the difference between one a 2-n value and the previous one (where possible), we can note it is a simple arithmetic series, with a difference of 2.