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date Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:54:49 +0000
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2000 Paul Kienzle
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2 ##
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3 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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4 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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5 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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6 ## (at your option) any later version.
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7 ##
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8 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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9 ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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10 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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11 ## GNU General Public License for more details.
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12 ##
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13 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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14 ## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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15 ## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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17 ## usage: isprime(n)
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18 ## Return true if n is a prime number, false otherwise.
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19 ##
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20 ## Something like the following is much faster if you need to test a lot
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21 ## of small numbers:
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22 ## t = ismember (n, primes (max (n (:))));
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23 ## If max(n) is very large, then you should be using special purpose
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24 ## factorization code.
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25 ##
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26 ## See also: primes, factor, gcd, lcm
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28 function t = isprime(n)
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29 if !is_scalar(n)
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30 [nr, nc] = size(n);
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31 t = n;
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32 for i=1:nr
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33 for j=1:nc
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34 t(i,j) = isprime(t(i,j));
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35 endfor
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36 endfor
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37 elseif (n != fix(n) || n < 2)
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38 t = 0;
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39 elseif n < 4
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40 t = 1;
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41 else
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42 q = n./[2:sqrt(n)];
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43 t = all (q != fix(q));
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44 endif
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45 endfunction