Re: A different take on finding primes

2009-11-18 Thread Anh Hai Trinh
1) google list of prime numbers 2) see Prime numbers list in the results (number 3 in the results) 3) click link that leads towww.prime-numbers.org I found 455042511 prime numbers in approx 15 seconds. Not bad at all. How about using http://www.sagemath.org/ (written in Python). sage:

Re: A different take on finding primes

2009-11-18 Thread Nigel Rowe
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:21, Tobiah wrote in comp.lang.python okgmm.17283$et3.3...@newsfe17.iad: Let me be clear, given 2min, how many primes can you find, they need not be in order or consecutive. Do they have to go from low to high? :( ) 1) google list of prime numbers 2) see Prime

Re: A different take on finding primes

2009-11-17 Thread Tobiah
Let me be clear, given 2min, how many primes can you find, they need not be in order or consecutive. Do they have to go from low to high? :( ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

A different take on finding primes

2009-11-14 Thread Vincent Davis
Out of pure curiosity I would like to compare the efficiency of different methods of finding primes (need not be consecutive). Let me be clear, given 2min, how many primes can you find, they need not be in order or consecutive. I have not seen any examples of this. I am assume the solution is

Re: A different take on finding primes

2009-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
Vincent Davis wrote: Out of pure curiosity I would like to compare the efficiency of different methods of finding primes (need not be consecutive). Let me be clear, given 2min, how many primes can you find, they need not be in order or consecutive. I have not seen any examples of this. I am