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primes: Efficient, purely functional generation of prime numbers

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This Haskell library provides an efficient lazy wheel sieve for prime generation inspired by Lazy wheel sieves and spirals of primes by Colin Runciman and The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes by Melissa O'Neil.

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Versions 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.1.1, 0.2.0.0, 0.2.1.0
Dependencies base (==4.*) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Sebastian Fischer
Maintainer Sebastian Fischer
Category Algorithms, Numerical
Home page http://github.com/sebfisch/primes
Bug tracker http://github.com/sebfisch/primes/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/sebfisch/primes.git
Uploaded by SebastianFischer at Fri Apr 29 09:38:55 UTC 2011
Distributions Arch:0.2.1.0, Debian:0.2.1.0, LTSHaskell:0.2.1.0, NixOS:0.2.1.0
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This Haskell library provides an efficient lazy wheel sieve for prime
generation inspired by "Lazy wheel sieves and spirals of primes" [1]
by Colin Runciman and "The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes" [2] by
Melissa O'Neil.

[1]: <http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/colin/jfp97lw.ps.gz>
[2]: <http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf>