Re: newbie question

["Lonnie Cumberland" <lonnie@outstep.com>]

Thanks for the help and I am looking ever deeper into the help system
of PARI.

Can you please tell me if there is a builtin function to return a
psuedoprime or prime number of a give number of digits in size?

I want to get some do some timing tests on various sizes of factoring
of co-primes from about 4 digits each to about 20 digits each.

The routine that I am looking for would be one that returned a random
prime number of a given size.

any ideas on this?

Thanks and have a good day,

Lonnie T. Cumberland
OutStep Technologies Incorporated

Email: Lonnie@outstep.com
       Lonnie_Cumberland@yahoo.com

"Open Source...... opening the doors for the future in the world of
today...."



On Wed, March 7, 2007 09:32, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>

> On Mar 7, 2007, at 07:05 , Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>
>> I am new to Pari after using Landon Calc for a while, but had some
>> problems with it and thought that I would try a more advanced
>> package like Pari.
>>
>> I just installed Pari on a Windows machine and tried a simple plot
>> command.
>>
>> plot(x=-2,2,sin(x^7))
>>
>> it seems to have plotted the result in the text command space
>> instead of a graphical window.
>
> 'gp' has a pretty good documentation feature:
>
>
>> ?foo
>>
> gets you a brief description of "foo"; and
>> ??foo
>>
> gets you a more detailed description of "foo".
>
> "foo" can be anything that 'gp' recognizes.  Finally,
>
>
>> ???foo
>>
> will cause a search of the documentation for "foo" and print out the
> names of the entries where "foo" is found.  Try
>
>> ???plot
>>
>
> Justin
>
>
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