October 10, 2008
Leaky
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.
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October 10th, 2008 at 7:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223668728 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 10th, 2008 at 8:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223670498 )
sieve of eratosthenes
October 10th, 2008 at 8:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223670536 )
sieve of eratosthenes
October 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223676939 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 10th, 2008 at 10:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223677715 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:39 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223678357 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223679709 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes, an algorithm to find prime numbers upto a certain integer
October 10th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223680442 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes… prime number sieve
damn… me and shegde invented that :(
October 11th, 2008 at 3:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223695000 )
Is it Eratosthenes Sieve?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223699028 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 5:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223704648 )
Eratosthene’s sieve??
October 11th, 2008 at 6:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223706983 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
– Apurva
October 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223707815 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 7:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223709955 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 8:33 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223713986 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 9:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223715819 )
The Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 11:52 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223725927 )
Eratosthenes: Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 5:18 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223745535 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223746174 )
My guess: Sieve of Eratosthenes, given prime numbers are cicled in the table.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223758322 )
eratosthenes sieve
October 12th, 2008 at 8:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223798737 )
The sieve of Eratosthenes.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:00 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223802041 )
This is the Sieve of Eratosthenes which filters through the prime numbers.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223802133 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
October 12th, 2008 at 10:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1223850011 )
Sieve of Eratosthenes
sorry for the late reply
October 14th, 2008 at 6:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1223965068 )
hey! why no points for me? :(
October 15th, 2008 at 1:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224033227 )
@varuns88: Looks like you missed the deadline by about 3 hrs :)
October 18th, 2008 at 12:48 am, GMT +0000 ( 1224290914 )
no points for me as well?