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by justin cater.
Original Post: Getting an Infinite List of Primes in Java
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A common problem is to determine the prime factorization of a number. The brute force approach is trial division (Wikipedia, Khan Academy) but that requires a lot of wasted effort if multiple numbers must be factored. One widely used solution is the Sieve of Eratosthenes (Wikipedia, Math World). It is easy to modify the Sieve […]