Prime number module

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 30 02:18:34 EDT 2003


Lulu of the Lotus Eaters:
> > So I only expect around 5,428,681 primes less than 10^8 to occur.
> > Well, that's not SO much less than 7.8M.

Klaus Alexander Seistrup
> I found 5,761,455 primes < 1E8.

http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/howmany.shtml has the same number.
(found by googling for "5,761,455" - 3rd hit. :)

That's using Proof by Consensus,
 http://www.isip.msstate.edu/about_us/misc/humor/proofs/

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com








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