1 is not prime (Re: a better prime number generator)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 24 02:54:16 CEST 2001


Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
>     # 1 is prime, but we don't want it in the list during the loop
>     primes.insert(0, 1)

The way the primes are usually defined, 1 is
not considered prime. So this line should be
removed.

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