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Comment by FiatLuxDave

1 day ago

I know it's not technically a fast factorial algorithm, but I'm kinda surprised that there is no mention on the site of the AKS primality test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test). It's operation is sort of like an FFT for canceling out factorials mod N.

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