Comments on: The Sieve of Eratosthenes http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2008/12/14/the-sieve-of-eratosthenes/ Unscientific and ultimately destructive. Sun, 12 May 2013 14:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: roma http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2008/12/14/the-sieve-of-eratosthenes/comment-page-1/#comment-47415 roma Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:44:06 +0000 http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/?p=1219#comment-47415 def sieve(n):
if ( n = n ): break
while j < n:
l[j] = None
j += i
return filter(None, l)

]]> By: Cairnarvon http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2008/12/14/the-sieve-of-eratosthenes/comment-page-1/#comment-38582 Cairnarvon Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:00:13 +0000 http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/?p=1219#comment-38582 That’s a very good point. I keep forgetting the ** operator exists.

]]> By: anon http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2008/12/14/the-sieve-of-eratosthenes/comment-page-1/#comment-38581 anon Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:58:35 +0000 http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/?p=1219#comment-38581 max = int(__import__(‘math’).sqrt(n))

could be written more concisely as:

max = int(n ** 0.5)

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