> [email protected]] Namens Zsbán Ambrus > Verzonden: woensdag 15 april 2009 14:15 > Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] table of primes to 1,000,000,000 or more > (...) > Also, a table of primes is never worth to download or store, as it's > faster to generate them online than reading them. > > Ambrus
This "never" seems incorrect, assumed reading is linear (in the number of primes) and generating is not. How long took it to generate the largest known prime? Definitely longer than reading it. So there is a prime after which is it worthwhile to store the larger primes. R.E. Boss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
