This one time, at band camp, Alex Salmon said:
>what do u mean by that exactly 3 to sqrt(x) by 2... what is x
if (num % 2 == 1) {
for (i = 3; i <= sqrt(num); i+=2) {
test;
}
}
He means, check for oddness, then go from 3 to the square root of the
number you're checking, in steps of 2.
>my idea was that as all primes end in 1,3,7,9 (not all ending 1 3 7 9 are
>primes tho)
Yeah, I stand corrected on that. feh, logic. I'm still playing with
kernel-package on Debian, and logic doesn't seem to apply here.
>James said somthing about doing everything in binary. what would be the
>actually outcome of this i mean how could i extract the last digit and set
>it to a int to test it as such??
I was thinking, that as computers are binary machines, you could
probably speed up your algorithm by thinking in binary rather than
decimal. This will mean doing a lot of modification to your algorithm.
Just thinking out loud again.
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