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The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes

Part of: JFP Research Articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

MELISSA E. O'NEILL
MELISSA E. O'NEILL*
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Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, U.S.A (e-mail: oneill@acm.org)
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Abstract

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A much beloved and widely used example showing the elegance and simplicity of lazy functional programming represents itself as “The Sieve of Eratosthenes.” This paper shows that this example is not the sieve and presents an implementation that actually is.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 95 - 106
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