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- From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:37:24 EDT
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- In article <1992Aug12.224159.14681@husc3.harvard.edu> O wrote:
- >Some years ago I read of a variation of Erathostenes' Sieve that
- >manages to compute the primes up to N in time o(N) [perhaps order
- >N/log(log(N))?] by compressing the sieve using the first few
- >primes (e.g. pre-sifting the multiples of 2,3,5,7 so one is
- >dealing with only 1*2*4*6=48 potential primes out of every
- >2*3*5*7=210 integers). Unfortunately I have lost the reference.
- >Can any member of the computational number theory contingent on
- >sci.math provide a pointer to this paper?
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- Thanks to all who replied. I have six references now, which should
- be plenty. I list them below, each one with the respondent who first
- suggested it.
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- --Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
- Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University
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- [From Todd Fine (fine@sctc.com):]
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- Some New Upper Bounds on the Generation of Prime Numbers, Harry G. Mairson,
- Communications of the ACM, September 1977, Volume 20, Number 9.
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- A Linear Sieve Algorithm for Finding Prime Numbers, David Gries and
- Jayadev Misra, Communications of the ACM, December 1978.
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- A Sublinear Additive Sieve for Finding Prime Numbers, Paul Pritchard,
- Communications of the ACM, January 1981, Volume 24, Number 1.
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- [From Jeff Shallit (shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca):]
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- Paul Pritchard:
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- Explaining the wheel sieve, Acta. Infor. 17 (1982), 477-485.
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- A sublinear sieve for finding prime numbers, Comm. ACM 24 (1981), 18-23.
- Corrigenda, 24 (1981) 772.
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- Linear prime number sieves: a family tree.
- Sci. Computer Prog. 9 (1987), 17-35.
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- [From Andrew Odlyzko (amo@research.att.com):]
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- Fast compact prime number sieves (among others),
- {\em J. Algorithms 4} (1983), 332--344.
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