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  2. Formula for primes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Sieve of Pritchard - Wikipedia

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    A prime number is a natural number that has no natural number divisors other than the number 1 and itself.. To find all the prime numbers less than or equal to a given integer N, a sieve algorithm examines a set of candidates in the range 2, 3, …, N, and eliminates those that are not prime, leaving the primes at the end.

  4. Jacobsthal number - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Jacobsthal numbers are an integer sequence named after the German mathematician Ernst Jacobsthal.Like the related Fibonacci numbers, they are a specific type of Lucas sequence (,) for which P = 1, and Q = −2 [1] —and are defined by a similar recurrence relation: in simple terms, the sequence starts with 0 and 1, then each following number is found by adding the number ...

  5. Primorial - Wikipedia

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    p n # as a function of n, plotted logarithmically.. For the n th prime number p n, the primorial p n # is defined as the product of the first n primes: [1] [2] # = =, where p k is the k th prime number.

  6. Prime number - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, every prime number other than 2 is an odd number, and is called an odd prime. [10] Similarly, when written in the usual decimal system, all prime numbers larger than 5 end in 1, 3, 7, or 9. The numbers that end with other digits are all composite: decimal numbers that end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 are even, and decimal numbers that end in ...

  7. Generation of primes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    A prime number is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: the number 1 and itself. To find all the prime numbers less than or equal to a given integer n by Eratosthenes' method: Create a list of consecutive integers from 2 through n: (2, 3, 4, ..., n). Initially, let p equal 2, the smallest prime number.

  9. Prime number theorem - Wikipedia

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    The first such distribution found is π(N) ~ ⁠ N / log(N) ⁠, where π(N) is the prime-counting function (the number of primes less than or equal to N) and log(N) is the natural logarithm of N. This means that for large enough N , the probability that a random integer not greater than N is prime is very close to 1 / log( N ) .