Using the sieve of Eratosthenes to obtain successive prime numbers with the aid of the integer part function (Q2713271)
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21 June 2001
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sieve of Eratosthenes
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formulas for prime numbers
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Using the sieve of Eratosthenes to obtain successive prime numbers with the aid of the integer part function (English)
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The paper attempts to give a formula for the \(n\)-th prime by way of utilizing the sieve of Eratosthenes. This hard-to-write formula has only a formal value as such, for it is more of an algorithm for listing the successive prime integers, the task that all sieves do in various ways.
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