• frank@sopuli.xyz
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    No, it’s always guessing false and 99991 is prime so it isn’t right. This isn’t the output of the program but the output of the program compared with a better (but probably not faster) isprime program

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      Yes, that’s what I said. They wrote another test program, with a correct implementation of IsPrime in order to test to make sure the pictured one produced the expected output.

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          I mean people underestimate how usefull lookup tables are. A lookup table of primes for example is basically always just better except the one case where you are searching for primes which is more maths than computer programming anyways. The modern way is to abstract and reimplement everything when there are much cheaper and easier ways of doing it.

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            more maths than computer programming anyways

            Computer programming is a subset of maths and was invented by a mathematition, originally to solve a maths problem…

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              Yeah but they slowly develop to be their own fields. You wouldnt argue that physics is math either. Or that chemistry could technically be called a very far branch of philosophy. Computer programing, physics, etc are the applied versions of math. You are no longer studying math, you are studying something else with the help of math. Not that it matters much, just makes distinguising between them easier. You can draw the line anywhere but people do generally have a somewhat shared idea of where that lies.

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          For prime numbers, since they’re quite difficult to calculate and there’s not that many of them, that’s what’s most common.