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Some deterministic and Las Vegas primality tests are presented. Under certain conditions, they run in polynomial time. In particular, there is a polynomial time Las Vegas algorithm deciding primality of n, when n hat at most 2 prime factors and n \(\mathop \mp \limits^ + \)1 mod 24.
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Fürer, M. (1985). Deterministic and Las Vegas primality testing algorithms. In: Brauer, W. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015745
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