safety0ff:

I.E. Are there non-toy uses to support inclusion?

I have several non-toy uses for the GCD, binomial, and the permutations/combinations/pairwise ranges.

The other little discrete numerical functions like the integer square root, etc, are useful sufficiently often.

The other two (isPrime and a sieve) are less practical, so their inclusion is more debatable. Sometimes you want some small primes for hashing, or in the unittests of a Rational type, and few other situations. But D is for mathematics usage too. Given the commonality of prime numbers in discrete mathematics (example: if you want to study certain graphs), I think such two/three functions/generators are acceptable, if they aren't too much complex.

Bye,
bearophile

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