Upon a stack of bits, about so tall, // Boolean[] isprime = new Boolean[n];
just think, O traveller, what we could do // Arrays.fill(isprime, true);
if every other bit was set to false // for (int i = 4; i < n; i+=2)
beginning with (but not including) two? // isprime[i] = false;
Now take two lowly numbers, A and B // for (int a = 3; a < n; a += 2)
that equal three and two. What would happen // {
if they, by twos and ones respectively, // for (int b = 2; a*b < n; b++)
were incremented in a nested fashion, // {
And if we falsified, at every turn, // isprime[a*b] = false;
the value offset by A groups of Bs? // }
Then to the aether let those bits return, // }
to fly back home to Eratosthenes! // return isprime;
The fact that you made it a poem, reminds me of some extempore poems that I made up as a kid - inspired by reading a book that my uncle bought me as a gift - The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense [2]. It had a lot of funny poems, limericks, etc. in it.
Here are two I made up at the time:
Poem 1:
Mr. Jolly had a brolly [1]
Its handle was made of silver, and its body was made of gold.
And Mr. Jolly used the brolly when it was very cold.
[1] Brolly is a Brit term for umbrella.
Poem 2:
I climbed up a mountain.
There I saw a fountain.
One, two, three, four, five!
In it I'd like to dive.
Go ahead, laugh. It's meant to be funny and silly.
I'll also mention a few good ones I read in that book:
Into the drinking well
Which the plumber built her.
Aunt Eliza fell.
We must buy a filter.
Old Father William:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_Old,_Father_William
[2] The book is suitable for kids of all ages:
https://www.google.com/searchq=the+golden+book+of+fun+and+no...
Sorry, typo in that URL. There should be a "?" between the "search" and the "q":
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+golden+book+of+fun+and+n...
That made me laugh so hard. Man. Great site.
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Maybe you should try to monetize fake companies instead. You're good at it.
Ineptech CEO Dick Hallerson wishes to apologize for describing the Quality Assurance group as a "necessary evil." Mr. Hallerson did not mean to imply that QA is necessary.
However, I think you just exceeded your hoster's bandwidth quota...(error message when I try to access it).
Back up now, and I broke the path to the silly stock photos, should help keep it up.
Lessons learned:
* I should've paid someone to do some decent graphics, turns out "minimalist aesthetic" is not the same as "no effort put in to design"
* Making it a free demo, with the full game available as an in-app-purchase, sounds like a good deal for the user but in actuality sets off peoples' "IAP == crapware" alarm
On the upside, I also made a fake corporate website (http://ineptech.com) to promote it and that was so much fun that I'd probably waste all that time again.