From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan  9 15:25:33 2002
Subject: isprime??
From: Syed Imran <s dot i dot azeezullah at massey dot ac dot nz>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:25:26 +1300

Hi all,

    Is there an isprime function for octave? If there is, how many
digits can it handle? I am looking at checking for 'primeness'(prolly
wrong term) of a few big numbers.

Also, I would be happy if you could give me some pointers for factoring
algorithms.

Regards,
Imran



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