Answer by Varun Vejalla for How can wheel factorization be used to speed up...
Let's say you have the wheel made from the first $3$ prime numbers: $2, 3, 5$. The wheel would consist of all integer $n \in [2, 2\cdot 3\cdot 5 + 1]$ coprime to $2, 3, 5$. Specifically it would be...
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I've seen optimizations to the Sieve of Eratosthenes that (claim to) use "wheel factorization". If the goal is to generate a list of prime numbers up to a certain value, I'm wondering how exactly is...
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An example of how to use wheel factorization with sieve to find primes greater than $3$ is the following:code in pythonn=10000000primes5m6 = [True] * (n//6+1)primes1m6 = [True] * (n//6+1)for i in...
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