On 02/25/2015 02:10 PM, William Stein wrote:
> 
>     toys.eratosthenes()
> 
> or possibly eratosthenes_toy()...
> 

In this case, the name refers to the implementation, not the
functionality, so I don't think it's a big deal. It's not a "prime
number routine" that just happens to be slow -- it's the sieve of
Eratosthenes, running as fast as it can. Any other implementation will
be just as slow.

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