I’ve finally made it to 98.5%!
I’ve finally made it to 98.5%!
Yet another pointless prime post! I wrote a prime number generator in Fortran.
So, what has my new computer been doing? I dug out a previous project and set it to work.
Two decides to take a vacation. “Thanks for representing me at the prime meeting tonight,” He tells Four as he hands him a pass, “I’m sure there won’t be any problems – I’ll be back in 2 weeks”. And with…
Because I can, this post is about finding prime numbers with the sieve of Eratosthenes.
So with that now working, I set it off running.
Previously: …it might be best to connect this to primesieve with Fortran’s ISO_C_BINDING module Guess what – it was time to do that.
Wheel factorization is a method to find prime numbers. So that’s what this post is about.
Recall in part one I mentioned the root spiral and prime numbers. I won’t go into the history of how they came about (other than mention that Mr. Ulam was really bored) but I’ll point out some things of them.
This post looks at prime gaps and makes pictures out of them.