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October 10, 2008

Leaky

— srikanth @ 6:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223662303 ) Play

Guest question by sidsen.

What is this called? Gets it name from the greek mathematician who first thought of this and the manner in which it functions.

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Answer:

Eratosthene’s Sieve: A technique to find primes by filtering out composites.

27 Responses to “Leaky”

  1. amith Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes


  2. Anonymous Says:

    sieve of eratosthenes


  3. priyananda Says:

    sieve of eratosthenes


  4. Phani Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes


  5. Atul Mathew Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes?


  6. Dibyo Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes

    Dibyo

  7. shenoyvarun86 Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes, an algorithm to find prime numbers upto a certain integer

    shenoyvarun86

  8. duriel Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes… prime number sieve

    damn… me and shegde invented that :(


  9. aditya_s Says:

    Is it Eratosthenes Sieve?


  10. Ajay Parasuram Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes


  11. Goyal Says:

    Eratosthene’s sieve??


  12. Apurva Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes

    – Apurva


  13. nihit Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes

    nihit

  14. vishal Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes


  15. BiGFooT Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes


  16. Archana Says:

    The Sieve of Eratosthenes


  17. malcaluffin Says:

    Eratosthenes: Sieve of Eratosthenes


  18. mach101 Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes


  19. Ananth Says:

    My guess: Sieve of Eratosthenes, given prime numbers are cicled in the table.


  20. Rohan Says:

    eratosthenes sieve


  21. alephnull Says:

    The sieve of Eratosthenes.


  22. Tups Says:

    This is the Sieve of Eratosthenes which filters through the prime numbers.


  23. varuns88 Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes

    varuns88

  24. sidsen Says:

    Sieve of Eratosthenes
    sorry for the late reply


  25. varuns88 Says:

    hey! why no points for me? :(

    varuns88

  26. srikanth Says:

    @varuns88: Looks like you missed the deadline by about 3 hrs :)

    srikanth

  27. Rohan Says:

    no points for me as well?


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