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• Mathematics for Programmers
Sieve of Eratosthenes is a very famous and efficient algorithm to generate all small prime numbers up to around 1-10 million. This is an ancient algorithm given by a Greek mathematician named Eratosthenes. We will write a simple program for prime number generation using this algorithm.
Please go through our previous lesson to understand prime number testing using trial division method: • Verify a Prime number - Trial divisio...
Wikipedia link for Sieve of eratosthenes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of...