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By using a sieve created by Prime Number Tables set up by the formula PN+(PNx6) for numbers generated by 6n+or-1, takes 182 calculations to identify 170 composite numbers. Using the Sieve of Eratosthenes would take around 1600 calculations. The Prime Number Tables identify all the composite numbers on the the list of 332 possible prime numbers:

5,11,17,23,29,35,41,47,53,59,65,71,77,83,89,95,101,107,113,119,125,131,137,143,149,155,161...

7,13,19,25,31,37,49,55,61,67,73,79,85,91,97,103,109,115,121,127,133,139,145,151,157,163,169...

Prime Number Table for:

5 identifies the multiples of 5 with 67 calculations (the Sieve of E: 249)

7: 23 calculations (the Sieve of E: 133)

11: 29 calculations (the Sieve of E: 98)

13: 11 calculations (the Sieve of E: 75)

17: 17 calculations (the Sieve of E: 57)

19: 4 calculations (the Sieve of E: 51)

23: 12 calculations (the Sieve of E: 42)

29: 5 calculations (the Sieve of E: 34)

31: 1 calculations (the Sieve of E: 31)

41: 3 47: 3 53: 2 59: 2 calculations (the Sieve of E:0)

71: 2 89: 1 101: 1 calculations (the Sieve of E: 0)

107: 1 113: 1 131: 1 137: 1 calculations (the Sieve of E: 0)

2: 0 calculations (the Sieve of E:499)

3: 0 calculations (the Sieve of E: 332)

Total Calculations:

A Sieve using PN Tables: 187 calculations to find 166 Prime Numbers by identifying 166 composite numbers (10 of 11 duplicate of multiples of 5)

Sieve of Eratosthenes: 1601 calculations to find 168 Prime Numbers by identifying 832 composite numbers (769 duplication of calculations)

Note: What I am really hoping for is some help. I have tested this up to 1411. There is no reason to believe it wouldn't go to whatever number. It seems since it deals with less numbers and less calculations, it would use less memory. If you look at the tables and what I have been able to research it makes Primes numbers even more interesting for children who might then take up more interest in math. Hey, I am a guy who works in a grocery store who just likes to think about things. I need help. People keep telling me about the Sieve of Eratosthenes. I have given a comparison between the 2 sieves. Would you rather make 1600 calculations or 187?

You can check on my website: https://mrspudgetty.wixsite.com/mr-spudgetty/prime-numbers

Orlando Vidads
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  • "They are numbers that have 1 and the number itself as the only multiples": multiples should be divisors. – TonyK Feb 01 '19 at 11:47
  • Thanks you. I may not have worded the question clearly. I am wondering if there is a way, such as the sieve of Eratosthenes, that would use less than 200 calculations to eliminate all of the composite numbers up to 1000. The Sieve mentioned uses around 1600 to identify 832 composite number. The calculations for 2 and 3 alone are 831. I was hoping others might look over a process I stumbled into that takes only 187 calculation to find all the prime numbers (168 Total) up to the 1000 mark. – Orlando Vidads Feb 01 '19 at 22:17
  • Yes, I get that. And I took a brief look at your web site, but it wasn't clear to me what you were doing. But I did notice that error that I commented on, and I thought you might like to be informed. – TonyK Feb 01 '19 at 22:35
  • Ok Thanks. Yes maybe that is the problem I am having. I stumbled into this making a table for 5, by lining up the sequence of the numbers 5, 6, 7 with the sequence 35, 36, 37. By adding 30 the multiples of 5 lined up in a column. Another column of composite numbers lined up as well at 25. So, in the first column, the table had 5 35 65 95 125. The other column had 25 55 85 115. Those were the same multiples in the sequence of 6n+or-1. I realized 30 I had added to each row was PNx6. So, for 7,the results were 49 91 133 175. For 11: 77 143 209 ... Each number matched a number on the list. – Orlando Vidads Feb 02 '19 at 00:33

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Here is the problem with your method and its objective: You use the Sieve of Eratosthenes as a standard, and apply it to a list of $1000$ numbers to determine a minimum number of calculations to identify all prime numbers in that range. But you start with a sublist (Prime Number Tables) of the first $1000$ numbers to reduce the number of calculations by your method. You have 'hidden' the number of calculations that you used to generate your Prime Number Tables, so the comparison of getting from that starting point to the finish is inappropriate vs starting from scratch. If you add the number of calculations it took you to create your Prime Number Tables, I doubt that your method is significantly more efficient than the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

Keith Backman
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What you are looking for is a computational function that returns the list of primes less than 1000, and works as efficiently as possible, on just that problem.

There are 168 primes between 1 and 1000, so any method will take at least 168 operations, obviously.

Suppose you could find approximately a list of 13 numbers and a disjoint other list of 13 numbers, such that precisely every prime occurs when you sum the two sets together elementwise, and no more than that (no composites; otherwise more testing would be required to filter them out).

What I mean is:

$$ A := \{0, 2, 6\} \\ B := \{5, 11, 17\} \\ A + B = \{ 5, 11, 17, 7, 13, 19, 23\} $$

You can most likely find two sets of around 13-20 elements each such that when you sum the sets you get your list. The sets would then be constants in your program, and the program that generates your output in under 200 operations, actually in 169 arithmetic operations (less if you're allowed to include $B$ which could be made to be all prime numbers if there's a $0$ included in $A$).

See:

Compressing the primes using addition

Daniel Donnelly
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