Hello
I would like to know if there is a way to compute the Sieve of erastothenes with pure data
and spit out numbers which can be used for MIDI notes.
There used to be a simple unix program that i used but it no longer is available.
Has anyone tried this with pd? I found some Java code for it.
pp
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N Primes <= N
10 4
100 25
1,000 168
10,000 1,229
100,000 9,592
1,000,000 78,498
10,000,000 664,579
100,000,000 5,761,455
1,000,000,000 50,847,534
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public class PrimeSieve { public static void main(String[] args) { int N = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
// initially assume all integers are prime
boolean[] isPrime = new boolean[N + 1];
for (int i = 2; i <= N; i++) {
isPrime[i] = true;
}
// mark non-primes <= N using Sieve of Eratosthenes
for (int i = 2; i*i <= N; i++) {
// if i is prime, then mark multiples of i as nonprime
// suffices to consider mutiples i, i+1, ..., N/i
if (isPrime[i]) {
for (int j = i; i*j <= N; j++) {
isPrime[i*j] = false;
}
}
}
// count primes
int primes = 0;
for (int i = 2; i <= N; i++) {
if (isPrime[i]) primes++;
}
System.out.println("The number of primes <= " + N + " is " + primes);
}
}
Patrick Pagano B.S, M.F.A Audio and Projection Design Faculty Digital Worlds Institute University of Florida, USA (352)294-2020