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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by calpaterson on Thursday April 07, 2011 @06:54PM (#2421561)
Hopefully you'd try another algorithm before you did that ;). Primality tests are one of the most highly understood and well documented areas of CS - trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?
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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by btilly on Thursday April 07, 2011 @07:43PM (#2421717)
... trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?

Longer than that. The sieve of Eratosthenes is attributed to Eratosthenes, who lived from 276 BC to 195 BC.

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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by calpaterson on Friday April 08, 2011 @07:31AM (#2423297)
Hah, this exact thing occurred to me lying in bed last night :)
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