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 ...

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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 ...

A benchmark program used to test the mathematical speed of a computer. The program calculates prime numbers based on Eratosthenes's algorithm. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...