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This is a list of articles about prime numbers. A prime number (or prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. By Euclid's theorem, there are an infinite number of prime numbers. Subsets of the prime numbers may be generated with various formulas for primes.
The sieve starts with a list of the integers from 1 to n. From this list, all numbers of the form i + j + 2ij are removed, where i and j are positive integers such that 1 ≤ i ≤ j and i + j + 2ij ≤ n. The remaining numbers are doubled and incremented by one, giving a list of the odd prime numbers (that is, all primes except 2) below 2n + 2.
A prime sieve or prime number sieve is a fast type of algorithm for finding primes. There are many prime sieves. The simple sieve of Eratosthenes (250s BCE), the sieve of Sundaram (1934), the still faster but more complicated sieve of Atkin [1] (2003), sieve of Pritchard (1979), and various wheel sieves [2] are most common.
The following is pseudocode which combines Atkin's algorithms 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 [1] by using a combined set s of all the numbers modulo 60 excluding those which are multiples of the prime numbers 2, 3, and 5, as per the algorithms, for a straightforward version of the algorithm that supports optional bit-packing of the wheel; although not specifically mentioned in the referenced paper, this ...
This category includes articles relating to prime numbers and primality. For a list of prime numbers, see list of prime numbers . This category roughly corresponds to MSC 11A41 Primes and MSC 11A51 Factorization; primality
Rowland (2008) proved that this sequence contains only ones and prime numbers. However, it does not contain all the prime numbers, since the terms gcd(n + 1, a n) are always odd and so never equal to 2. 587 is the smallest prime (other than 2) not appearing in the first 10,000 outcomes that are different from 1. Nevertheless, in the same paper ...
14/11 = 1.272727272727... = 1. 27 or 321.3217878787878... = 321.321 78. If b = p is a prime number, one can define base-p numerals whose expansion to the left never stops; these are called the p-adic numbers. It is also possible to define a variation of base b in which digits may be positive or negative; this is called a signed-digit ...
In mathematics, the prime-counting function is the function counting the number of prime numbers less than or equal to some real number x. [1] [2] It is denoted by π(x) (unrelated to the number π). A symmetric variant seen sometimes is π 0 (x), which is equal to π(x) − 1 ⁄ 2 if x is exactly a prime number, and equal to π(x) otherwise.