Shortest prime number program

swisscheese jimlewis at miclog.com
Sat Feb 11 05:03:46 EST 2006


I figured someone out there must have written a minimal code size prime
number generator. I did not find one after a bit of searching around.
For primes up to 100 the best I could do was 70 characters (including
spaces):

r=range(2,99)
m=[x*y for x in r for y in r]
[x for x in r if not x in m]




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