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| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>sci-mathematics@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Mathematics Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| primegen is a small, fast library to generate prime numbers in |
| order. It generates the 50847534 primes up to 1000000000 in just 8 |
| seconds on a Pentium II-350; it prints them in decimal in just 35 |
| seconds. |
| |
| primegen can generate primes up to 1000000000000000, although it |
| is not optimized for primes past 32 bits. It uses the Sieve of Atkin |
| instead of the traditional Sieve of Eratosthenes. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |