The doc says that n should be an odd number. For example,
"2011 2011 sieve marked-prime?" works

But maybe the word should be changed to work with even number as well.

Also, there's a typo in the documentation. Here's a patch that fixes it:
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diff --git a/basis/math/primes/erato/erato-docs.factor
b/basis/math/primes/erato/erato-docs.factor
index 1e32818..9279f8f 100644
--- a/basis/math/primes/erato/erato-docs.factor
+++ b/basis/math/primes/erato/erato-docs.factor
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ IN: math.primes.erato

 HELP: sieve
 { $values { "n" "the greatest odd number to consider" } { "arr" "a
bit array" } }
-{ $description "Apply Eratostene sieve up to " { $snippet "n" } ".
Primality can then be tested using " { $link sieve } "." } ;
+{ $description "Apply Eratostene sieve up to " { $snippet "n" } ".
Primality can then be tested using " { $link marked-prime? } "." } ;

 HELP: marked-prime?
 { $values { "n" "an integer" } { "arr" "a byte array returned by " {
$link sieve } } { "?" "a boolean" } }
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Jon

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I bumped into this today and I've attached a patch with test-case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rupert
>
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