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Can someone explain how sieve of eratosthenes algorithm works and segmented sieve too?

Sieve of eratosthenes algorithm is used for finding prime numbers with very efficient time complexity. This is a link to algorithm http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sieve-of-eratosthenes/

21st Jun 2017, 11:27 AM
Arpit saxena
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This algorithm gives you all prime numbers from 2 to determined P. 1) Set all numbers from 2 to P to list. 2) Set current variable n=2 (this is the smallest prime number). 3) Remove from this list all numbers that are multiples of current n. 4) Set new value for variable n: next number of updated list after current n. 5) Repeat operations #3 and then #4. Finally you'll get a list with only prime numbers.
21st Jun 2017, 12:15 PM
Александр Громозонов
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