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That's not similar, at all. This is actually removing multiples, as in the sieve of erastosthenes.

• rootlocus 10y ago
  It's missing a loop, and the primes are hardcoded into the source code (see the similarity?). You might be mislead by the fact that you also find 'span:nth-child(4n+8)' or 'span:nth-child(6n+12)' (which aren't primes) but those are redundant, and an efficient sieve would skip non primes.
  • nedbat 10y ago
    Yes, they are redundant, but there's still no special knowledge of the primes in the file.
  • startling 10y ago
    The primes are hardcoded into the source the same way that the primes are hardcoded into the sequence of natural numbers. They're there, but the important bit is finding them.