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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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Parallel sieve of Eratosthenes, version 2
Equally-sized sequential subsets of primes don't evenly divide the task. The smallest numbers lead to a lot more multiples.
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