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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prime and Quasi-Prime Number Races

Abstract

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"We review the body of work done on prime number races, specifically the results involving infinitely many lead changes in prime number races. We describe a computational way of showing that any race has infinitely many lead changes and greatly expand the known results in this area. An extension of the traditional prime number race problem is discussed where we race ""quasi-primes"" or composite numbers that are the product of two odd primes modulo 4. We then consider what ""percentage"" of the time that the residue class 1 leads the residue class 3 in this ""quasi-prime"" race modulo 4."

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Mathematics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Sneed, Jason P.
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Hildebrand, A.J.
  • Kevin Ford

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3411454
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86936

Chain of custody

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Sneed, Jason P.. Prime and Quasi-Prime Number Races. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86936