Re: [MacPerl] Prime Numbers

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 7:37 -0400 8/16/99, Bill Jones wrote:
>> (Does it do the first 1000 primes *correctly*?  If not, then the time to
>> produce the first 1000 primes is infinite, and speeding it up would be done
>> first by making it correct.)
>>
>
>Are you suggesting they are not correct???

I was merely asking.  Partly because I've seen incorrect lists of primes
before, and partly because if the answer is wrong, then it is very much
easier to get the (right) answer faster (than never).  I suspect the list
is correct.

At 7:37 -0400 8/16/99, Bill Jones wrote:
>I have verified that the first 1,000 are prime.

That's a good start.  Are any actual primes in the range ending at the last
one reported missing from the output?

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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