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The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a prime-finding algorithm developed by the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes. It works by writing down as many numbers as needed and then, traversing from lowest to highest, cross out all multiples of a number, beginning with 2. The numbers that remain are considered prime and the lowest of it will be used for the next run.
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Optimizing the Sieve of Eratosthenes for prime generation
I've been on a Project Euler spree and I've been solving problems and as you might know, many of them require you to use prime numbers. I've been using the following code to generate and store primes …
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