[sage-devel] Re: trac ticket 7013 is ready for review prime_pi and nth_prime (my first Sage contribution)

2009-09-28 Thread William Stein
Hi, I looked over the code. The code implements what is the world's fastest general purpose prime_pi for a practical range of numbers -- it's much faster than Mathematica, or anything else available in general purpose software. However, it is really mainly a first very rough draft, in that it

[sage-devel] Re: trac ticket 7013 is ready for review prime_pi and nth_prime (my first Sage contribution)

2009-09-27 Thread gsw
Well, hopefully my review comments are helpful! Cheers, Georg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options,

[sage-devel] Re: trac ticket 7013 is ready for review prime_pi and nth_prime (my first Sage contribution)

2009-09-27 Thread kstueve
I added a zip file with the code to my sagemath directory and a note to the trac server. Thanks for your comments Georg and Robert Bradshaw! I think I'll need some help making the build scripts for every possible operating system and platform. Thanks for being patient with this being my first

[sage-devel] Re: trac ticket 7013 is ready for review prime_pi and nth_prime (my first Sage contribution)

2009-09-26 Thread kstueve
Would any of you be interested in refereeing ticket 7013? It needs review. On Sep 25, 6:26 pm, kstueve kevin.stu...@gmail.com wrote: Uses a hybrid table lookup and sieving algorithm.  Also provides the option of using PARI's sieving algorithm, Andrew Ohana's optimized Legendre algorithm, or