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I've never heard "sieve of giraffes" before, and I'm coming up empty in searches for it. Can you explain?
by andrewpbrett 17y ago
I've never heard "sieve of giraffes" before, and I'm coming up empty in searches for it. Can you explain?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoSure thing. It's a word-play off three concepts. The First is the famous filter for finding primes, the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Sieve of Eratosthenes Then there is the concept of "Interesting Numbers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox (every number is interesting). Finally RiderOfGiraffes' nickname, since they've demonstrated to me that once you start looking at those little commentid fields it does interesting things to my obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Sorry so obtuse. My head's been down in code all day long. If I could post in binary it might be easier :)
- russell 17y agoWell, I figured out the first and third parts. So the the Sieve of Giraffes returns every number. I guess the next step is to include it in the Java library.