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fun quote: " This design requires that the primes less than 10,000 be known. If desired, the machine could be made to automatically connect in new counters as
by justifier 10y ago
fun quote:
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This design requires that the primes less
than 10,000 be known. If desired, the machine could
be made to automatically connect in new counters as
the primes were found, but there are many accurate
tables of primes up to 10,000 so that this would not
be necessary.
As to the practicability of such a device, it
might be said tnat J.P. Kulik spent 20 years in
constructing a table of primes up to 100,000,000 and
when finished it was found to contain so many errors
that it was not worth publishing. The macnine described
here could probably be made to handle 5 numbers per
second so that the table would require only about 2
months to construct.
"
i am always amazed at the idea of tables of useful figures being a limited resource, think tycho brahe or log tables