Dec 14
After feedback from some friends of mine, and doing a little bit of background research, I am writing this update to my original post last week. As it turns out, by checking all the numbers in the form 6k ± 1 instead of checking each number up to the input value, I have increased the speed …
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Dec 10
While working on some caching settings, I had a need to know if a number is prime. I wrote this little Python script which will tell you if the number defined in the script is indeed a prime.
Permanent link to this article: http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/10/determining-if-a-number-is-prime/
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