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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: Does there exist a large list of primes ftpable someplace?
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- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:31:32 GMT
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- In article <1b4ktbINNhp5@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> dove@cats.ucsc.edu (Ray Rischpater) writes:
- :
- :I'm looking for a large ascii list of prime numbers, starting preferably at
- :2 and going on up.
-
- Why do you need such a thing? It is generally faster to generate them
- on the fly, via a sieve, than it is to read them in, formatted off a disk!
-
- It is debatable whether a binary file could be read faster than it takes
- to generate them, but ASCII? No way!
-
- You also do not say how large "large" is.
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