[PD] Sieve of erastothen

Claude Heiland-Allen claude at mathr.co.uk
Wed Jan 28 17:26:26 CET 2015


On 28/01/15 15:48, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would like to know if there is a way to compute the Sieve of erastothenes with pure data

why not load a text file containing a list of primes into a table?
eg: http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/millions/

the largest prime pd can handle is less than 16.3M (24bit floating point 
mantissa precision, pd-double could go a lot further), which makes just 
over 1M primes.

> and spit out numbers which can be used for MIDI notes.

or use them for reverb delay line times, etc

> There used to be a simple unix program that i used but it no longer is available.
>
> Has anyone tried this with pd? I found some Java code for it.

should be relatively trivial to translate to Lua or C, doing it in Pd 
would be possible but boring and slow


Claude
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