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Bug#226232: ITP: glucas -- Mersenne prime testing program



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
 
  Package name    : glucas
  Version         : 2.90
  Upstream Author : Guillermo Ballester Valor <gbv@oxixares.com>
  URL             : http://glucas.sourceforge.net/
  License         : GPL v2
  Description     : Mersenne prime testing program
 
Glucas tests Mersenne numbers (2^P-1) for primality using the
Lucas-Lehmer method. It can be used to participate in the Great
Internet Mersenne Prime Search (http://www.mersenne.org), a
distributed computing project that searches for record-breaking prime
numbers. It does not yet support automatic retrieval of exponents to
test from the GIMPS PrimeNet server.



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