I ended up with just enough time over the weekend to pull together a quick project. I implemented the Sieve-of-Eratosthenes on an ARM chip. If you haven’t heard of the Sieve of Eratosthenes then you ...

[Darkmoonsinger’s] sister is finishing her graduate degree in mathematics, and [Darkmoonsinger] wanted to give her a gift that fit with her achievement. Naturally, building a Sieve of Eratosthenes ...

Last week’s article, A Brief Introduction to Prime Numbers, mentioned the “Sieve of Eratosthenes” – a procedure devised by the clever Greek philosopher Eratosthenes. As a sieve catches fish, but ...

THE sieve of Eratosthenes has been used mainly for the determination of prime numbers—a function now presumably archaic. Sieves have other uses, including the finding of primes in arithmetical ...

PRIME numbers may have been studied for over 2000 years, but there is always something new to learn. A method for finding primes first devised by the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in 240 BC ...

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