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Simple formula makes prime numbers easy, but a million-dollar mystery remains (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] yewler@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

It's a Sieve of Eratosthsenes in disguise. It's pretty clever from what I remember, but I don't recall all the details.