LECTURE NOTES IN ANALYSIS (2011)
《LECTURE NOTES IN ANALYSIS (2011)》 · 第 81 页 · Section 2.4「Techniques of Numerical Calculation」
This method was proposed by J. M. Pollard in 1975. Since the pattern above resembles the Greek letter $\rho$ ("rho"), this approach is known as the Pollard rho method. It should be applied only to numbers $m$ that are already known to be composite.