https://ivandemarino.me/tags/implementation/ Recent content in Implementation on Zio Ivan Hugo en detronizator+blog@gmail.com (Ivan De Marino, aka "Zio Ivan", aka "detro") detronizator+blog@gmail.com (Ivan De Marino, aka "Zio Ivan", aka "detro") 2004-2026 Ivan De Marino. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://ivandemarino.me/posts/prime-numbers-generator/ Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000detronizator+blog@gmail.com (Ivan De Marino, aka "Zio Ivan", aka "detro") https://ivandemarino.me/posts/prime-numbers-generator/ <p>I believe I don&rsquo;t have to describe what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number">primes</a> are, what are their properties and what not. This post is more a tribute to geek-ness of 2 friends-and-colleagues (<a href="http://twitter.com/lucabox">@lucabox</a>) that have fun thinking of algorithms to solve stupid (or less stupid), and always useless problems ;-) .</p> <p><img alt="Optimus Prime" loading="lazy" src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/optimus_prime.jpg"> Optimus Prime :-P - yeah yeah, a stupid joke</p> <h2 id="briefing">Briefing</h2> <p>This code is based on the assumption that we want to generate very very large primes, so it uses <code>unsigned long long</code> to store the values, instead of classical <code>unsigned int</code>. Live with that.</p>