in reply to Prime Numbers
The fastest way would be to use a table.
my @primes = (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19); sub get_a_prime { return $primes[rand @primes]; } sub get_primes_iter { my $i = 0; return sub { return if $i > $#primes; return $primes[$i++]; }; } print(get_a_prime(), "\n"); my $i = get_primes_iter(); while (my ($prime) = $i->()) { print("$prime\n"); }
Or do you have a more specific criteria?
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Re^2: Prime Numbers
by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 10, 2007 at 20:44 UTC |