Timeline for Christening Fermat's Little Theorem
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| Jul 28, 2010 at 0:03 | comment | added | KConrad | Dan is right. Don't label the congruence that is called Fermat's Little Theorem by the standard name for one of its applications. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 22:56 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | It seems the theorem is the necessary condition behind the test. Perhaps "Fermat pseudoprime criterion"? | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 17:13 | comment | added | Dan Ramras | But "the Fermat primality test" seems to refer to something a bit different from the usual statement of Fermat's Little Theorem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat_primality_test. | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 16:59 | history | answered | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |