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Primes (again)

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg53024] Primes (again)
• From: George Szpiro <george at netvision.net.il>
• Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:34:46 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

this is probably a naive question, but how does Mathematica give the result of 
Prime[k]? Since the numbers are not stored anywhere, and there is no 
algorithm to "compute" them, how does Mathematica produce them?

Thanks to everybody, especially to Dr Bob and Yehuda Ben-Shimol, for 
answering my previous questions.

Best regards,
George

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