C Program to Perform Fermat Primality Test

This is a C Program to test whether a number is prime or not. The Fermat primality test is a probabilistic test to determine if a number is probable prime.

Here is source code of the C Program to Perform Fermat Primality Test. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <stdlib.h>
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#define ll long long
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/*
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 * modular exponentiation
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 */ll modulo(ll base, ll exponent, ll mod) {

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    ll x = 1;
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    ll y = base;
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    while (exponent > 0) {
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        if (exponent % 2 == 1)
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            x = (x * y) % mod;
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        y = (y * y) % mod;
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        exponent = exponent / 2;
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    }
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    return x % mod;
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}
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/*
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 * Fermat's test for checking primality

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int Fermat(ll p, int iterations) {
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    int i;
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    if (p == 1) {
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        return 0;
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    }
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    for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
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        ll a = rand() % (p - 1) + 1;
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        if (modulo(a, p - 1, p) != 1) {
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            return 0;
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        }
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    }
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    return 1;
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}
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/*
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 * Main
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 */
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int main() {
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    int iteration = 50;
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    ll num;
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    printf("Enter integer to test primality: ");

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    scanf("%lld", &num);
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    if (Fermat(num, iteration) == 1)
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        printf("%lld is prime ", num);
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    else
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        printf("%lld is not prime ", num);

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    return 0;
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}
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Output:

$ gcc FermatPrimeTest.c
$ ./a.out
 
Enter integer to test primality: 45
45 is not prime 
 
Enter integer to test primality: 97
97 is prime

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