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Primes: Find all Primes Less Than n

Description

Find all prime numbers aka ‘primes’ less than $n$.

Uses an obvious sieve method and some care, working with logical and integers to be quite fast.

Usage

Primes(n)

Arguments

n
a (typically positive integer) number.

Value

numeric vector of all prime numbers $<= n$.="" <="" dl="">

Details

As the function only uses max(n), n can also be a vector of numbers.

See Also

Factorize

Examples

Run this code
(p1 <- Primes(100))
system.time(p1k <- Primes(1000)) # still lightning ..

stopifnot(length(p1k) == 168)

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