FOM: Primality is in P

[Anatoly Vorobey]

Hello Piyush,

PPK>         Last sunday we received a communication from Prof Manindra Agrawal,
PPK> IIT Kanpur India, saying that the problem of testing whether a number is
PPK> prime has been shown to be in P. They ( Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and
PPK> Nitin Saxena) have given and $O( (log n)^12 )$ algorithm for primality.

Their paper is available here:

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/primality.pdf
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