package coreservlets; import java.math.BigInteger; /** A few utilities to generate a large random BigInteger, * and find the next prime number above a given BigInteger. *
* Taken from Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages
* from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
* http://www.coreservlets.com/.
* © 2000 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted.
*/
public class Primes {
// Note that BigInteger.ZERO was new in JDK 1.2, and 1.1
// code is being used to support the most servlet engines.
private static final BigInteger ZERO = new BigInteger("0");
private static final BigInteger ONE = new BigInteger("1");
private static final BigInteger TWO = new BigInteger("2");
// Likelihood of false prime is less than 1/2^ERR_VAL
// Assumedly BigInteger uses the Miller-Rabin test or
// equivalent, and thus is NOT fooled by Carmichael numbers.
// See section 33.8 of Cormen et al's Introduction to
// Algorithms for details.
private static final int ERR_VAL = 100;
public static BigInteger nextPrime(BigInteger start) {
if (isEven(start))
start = start.add(ONE);
else
start = start.add(TWO);
if (start.isProbablePrime(ERR_VAL))
return(start);
else
return(nextPrime(start));
}
private static boolean isEven(BigInteger n) {
return(n.mod(TWO).equals(ZERO));
}
private static StringBuffer[] digits =
{ new StringBuffer("0"), new StringBuffer("1"),
new StringBuffer("2"), new StringBuffer("3"),
new StringBuffer("4"), new StringBuffer("5"),
new StringBuffer("6"), new StringBuffer("7"),
new StringBuffer("8"), new StringBuffer("9") };
private static StringBuffer randomDigit() {
int index = (int)Math.floor(Math.random() * 10);
return(digits[index]);
}
public static BigInteger random(int numDigits) {
StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer("");
for(int i=0; i