From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 22:09:22 EDT
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Murphy [mailto:gmurphy@raex.com]
>Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:04 PM
>To: Glenn Morton
> There is a basic difference between the Fibonacci sequence
>& the primes. As you
>note, there is a formula with which one can generate as many
>members of the 1st sequence
>as you wish. But there is no general formula for generating
>primes (unless there's been
>a new discovery I haven't heard of, a possibility since I'm hardly
>a number theorist).
>All proposed prime-generating formulas have been found to break
>down at some point.
It isn't a new discovery but an old one, about 2500 years old. It is called
the Primes Sieve of Eratosthenes. Given enough time, it will generate the
entire list of primes. But that is the catch. It takes too much time.
Look it up on the internet.
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