Last week’s article, A Brief Introduction to Prime Numbers, mentioned the “Sieve of Eratosthenes” – a procedure devised by the clever Greek philosopher Eratosthenes. As a sieve catches fish, but ...

[Darkmoonsinger’s] sister is finishing her graduate degree in mathematics, and [Darkmoonsinger] wanted to give her a gift that fit with her achievement. Naturally, building a Sieve of Eratosthenes ...

I ended up with just enough time over the weekend to pull together a quick project. I implemented the Sieve-of-Eratosthenes on an ARM chip. If you haven’t heard of the Sieve of Eratosthenes then you ...

PRIME numbers may have been studied for over 2000 years, but there is always something new to learn. A method for finding primes first devised by the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in 240 BC ...