The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and…

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ✨ Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Textbook by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Article 329, 1801.
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