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Prime Number Calculation

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  • Subject: [mg84648] Prime Number Calculation
  • From: Jason Sidabras <jason.sidabras at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 01:30:14 -0500 (EST)

Does anyone have any information about mathematica's prime number
algorithm (for Prime[x])?

Do they use a sieve base algorithm or something more sophisticated?

Thanks,

Jason


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