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Personally, I haven't been using SIEVE because I didn't know what it was. However, after reading this article I still don't know what it is.
by erellsworth 3y ago
Personally, I haven't been using SIEVE because I didn't know what it was. However, after reading this article I still don't know what it is.
- scottlamb 3y agoI know what it is because I saw/skimmed a related article the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850202 ...but a good part of what this article is discussing is why you don't know what it is; why it hasn't been in textbooks for 40+ years: > if it’s so effective, and so simple, and so closely related to an algorithm that’s been around forever, why has nobody discovered it already?