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  2. Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    A prime number is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: the number 1 and itself. To find all the prime numbers less than or equal to a given integer n by Eratosthenes' method: Create a list of consecutive integers from 2 through n: (2, 3, 4, ..., n). Initially, let p equal 2, the smallest prime number.

  3. Generation of primes - Wikipedia

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    A prime sieve works by creating a list of all integers up to a desired limit and progressively removing composite numbers (which it directly generates) until only primes are left. This is the most efficient way to obtain a large range of primes; however, to find individual primes, direct primality tests are more efficient [citation needed].

  4. Formula for primes - Wikipedia

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    Rowland (2008) proved that this sequence contains only ones and prime numbers. However, it does not contain all the prime numbers, since the terms gcd(n + 1, a n) are always odd and so never equal to 2. 587 is the smallest prime (other than 2) not appearing in the first 10,000 outcomes that are different from 1. Nevertheless, in the same paper ...

  5. Sieve theory - Wikipedia

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    The techniques of sieve theory can be quite powerful, but they seem to be limited by an obstacle known as the parity problem, which roughly speaking asserts that sieve theory methods have extreme difficulty distinguishing between numbers with an odd number of prime factors and numbers with an even number of prime factors. This parity problem is ...

  6. Sieve of Sundaram - Wikipedia

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    from math import isqrt def sieve_of_Sundaram (n): """The sieve of Sundaram is a simple deterministic algorithm for finding all the prime numbers up to a specified integer.""" if n < 3: if n < 2: return 0 else: return 1 k = (n-3) // 2 + 1 integers_list = [True for i in range (k)] ops = 0 for i in range ((isqrt (n)-3) // 2 + 1): # if integers ...

  7. Sieve of Pritchard - Wikipedia

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    A prime number is a natural number that has no natural number divisors other than the number 1 and itself.. To find all the prime numbers less than or equal to a given integer N, a sieve algorithm examines a set of candidates in the range 2, 3, …, N, and eliminates those that are not prime, leaving the primes at the end.

  8. Prime number theorem - Wikipedia

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    The prime number race generalizes to other moduli and is the subject of much research; Pál Turán asked whether it is always the case that π c,a (x) and π c,b (x) change places when a and b are coprime to c. [34]

  9. List of prime numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Nth Prime Page Nth prime through n=10^12, pi(x) through x=3*10^13, Random primes in same range. Interface to a list of the first 98 million primes (primes less than 2,000,000,000) Weisstein, Eric W. "Prime Number Sequences" .