in reply to Finding Primes

I think you will need to use something like Math::BigInt so that you can handle integers with lots of digits of precision. Good luck!

Cheers!

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Re: Finding Primes
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 14, 2003 at 07:18 UTC
    Math::BigInt is way too slow for such a task. You want to do the number crunching in C or FORTRAN.

    Abigail

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