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I had thought of that, but that goes into deep recursion if you call sieve(1). :)

Oh, but tilly says that you may assume $n is above a fixed number. Pooh!

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Re (tilly) 5: (Golf): Sieve of Eratosthenes
by tilly (Archbishop) on May 19, 2001 at 22:32 UTC
    No. I only say that for the bonus problem.

    The first problem is correct first, efficient afterwards. The second should express the efficient algorithm accurately, but I allow some boundary sloppiness.