Abstract. The well-known Baillie-PSW probable prime test is a combination of a Rabin-Miller test and a “true ” (i.e., with (D/n) =−1) Lucas test. Arnault mentioned in a recent paper that no precise result is known about its probability of error. Grantham recently provided a probable prime test (RQFT) with probability of error less than 1/7710, and pointed out that the lack of counter-examples to the Baillie-PSW test indicates that the true probability of error may be much lower. In this paper we first define pseudoprimes and strong pseudoprimes to quadratic bases with one parameter: Tu = T mod (T 2 − uT + 1), and define the base-counting functions: B(n) =#{u:0 ≤ u<n, nis a psp(Tu)} and SB(n) =#{u:0 ≤ u<n, nis an spsp(Tu)}. Then we give explicit formulas to compute B(n) and SB(n), and prove that, for odd composites n, B(n) <n/2 and SB(n) <n/8, and point out that these are best possible. Finally, based on one-parameter quadratic-base pseudoprimes, we provide a probable prime test, called the One-Parameter Quadratic-Base Test (OPQBT), which passed by all primes ≥ 5 andpassedbyanoddcompositen = p r1 1 pr2 2 ···prs s (p1 <p2 < ·· · <ps odd primes) with probability of error τ(n). We give explicit formulas to compute τ(n), and prove that

Abstract. We describe some primality tests based on quadratic rings and discuss the absolute pseudoprimes for these tests. 1.