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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2016-05-01 01:20:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2016-05-01 01:20:52 +0200 |
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zptest.3: why it is called NONPRIME rather than COMPOSITE
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
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diff --git a/man/zptest.3 b/man/zptest.3 index f8193d0..dd35430 100644 --- a/man/zptest.3 +++ b/man/zptest.3 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ This function will either return: .TP .B NONPRIME .I questioned -is certainly a composite number. +is certainly a nonprime number (composite). .TP .B PROBABLY_PRIME .I questioned @@ -70,5 +70,11 @@ the chance that .B PRIME is returned. .IR witness . +.SH RATIONALE +.B NONPRIME +is called just that, rather than COMPOSITE, +because negative integers, zero, and one are +neither prime nor composite. (One was historically +a prime, we do not recognise it as such.) .SH SEE ALSO .BR zgcd (3) |