Using the sieve of Eratosthenes to obtain successive prime numbers with the aid of the integer part function (Q2713271)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1595634
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    Using the sieve of Eratosthenes to obtain successive prime numbers with the aid of the integer part function
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1595634

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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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