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2002
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Two contradictory conjectures concerning Carmichael numbers
Erdos conjectured that there are x1-o(1) Carmichael numbers up to x, whereas Shanks was skeptical as to whether one might even find an x up to which there are more than x Carmicha...
Andrew Granville, Carl Pomerance
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2000
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A modification of Shanks' baby-step giant-step algorithm
Abstract. I describe a modification to Shanks' baby-step giant-step algorithm for computing the order n of an element g of a group G, assuming n is finite. My method has the a...
David C. Terr