On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:12:54 -0800, you wrote:

>
>I'm afraid VB would be awfully slow at any sort of intensive numerical work
>like this, and not very good with precision either, so I rather doubt anyone
>has spent any signficant time on anything much more sophisticated than a
>erathonese sieve program
>
>-jrp
>

I know VB would not be the first choice. It's more for benchmarking
some machines(Prime95 is not an option on them), and to explore a bit.

Monte
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