Questions about or involving outside the range of normal machine precision, using Mathematica's capacity for arbitrary precision numbers and numbers outside the normal range of floating-point arithmetic.
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What is so special about Prime?
When we try to evaluate Prime on big numbers (e.g. 10^13) we encounter the following issue :
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What is the most efficient way to add zeros to end of a number?
Beside *10^n, is there a faster way to add thousands of zeros to end of a number?
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Fast Trial Division
I'm going to write a custom Trial Division primality test. I know that PrimeQ will first try trial division and then switches to ...
