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wiz e5079a7b49 usage police 2014-10-04 13:15:50 +00:00
ast bfe1fbfe02 Imported and adapted from FreeBSD svn r272166 and r272207; this fixes
false positives for products of primes larger than 2^16. For example,
before this commit:

  $ /usr/games/primes 4295360521 4295360522
  4295360521
but
  $ /usr/games/factor 4295360521
  4295360521: 65539 65539

or
  $ /usr/games/primes 3825123056546413049 3825123056546413050
  3825123056546413049
yet
  $ /usr/games/factor 3825123056546413049
  3825123056546413049: 165479 23115459100831

or
  $ /usr/games/primes 18446744073709551577
  18446744073709551577
although
  $ /usr/games/factor 18446744073709551577
  18446744073709551577: 139646831 132095686967

Incidentally, the above examples show the smallest and largest cases that
were erroneously stated as prime in the range 2^32 .. 3825123056546413049
.. 2^64; the primes(6) program now stops at 3825123056546413050 as
primality tests on larger integers would be by brute force factorization.

In addition, special to the NetBSD version:
. for -d option, skip first difference when start is >65537 as it is incorrect
. corrected usage to mention both the existing -d as well as the new -h option

For original FreeBSD commit message by Colin Percival, see:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=272166
2014-10-02 21:36:37 +00:00
wiz 1b89543c7f Document -d. 2008-02-03 03:29:17 +00:00
wiz 83a837b7df |fmt; add single quotes around a plus. 2004-02-09 23:25:47 +00:00
jsm 4eccb08bd5 Separate primes manpage from that of factor. Correct DIAGNOSTICS
information.
2004-02-08 13:16:25 +00:00