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Some thoughts on pseudoprimes

Number Theory 2021-03-02 v1

Abstract

We consider several problems about pseudoprimes. First, we look at the issue of their distribution in residue classes. There is a literature on this topic in the case that the residue class is coprime to the modulus. Here we provide some robust statistics in both these cases and the general case. In particular we tabulate all even pseudoprimes to 101610^{16}. Second, we prove a recent conjecture of Ordowski: the set of integers nn which are a pseudoprime to some base which is a proper divisor of nn has an asymptotic density.

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@article{arxiv.2103.00679,
  title  = {Some thoughts on pseudoprimes},
  author = {Carl Pomerance and Samuel S. Wagstaff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00679},
  year   = {2021}
}
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