prime


prime, a C code which counts the number of primes between 1 and N, and is intended as a starting point for a parallel version.

The algorithm is completely naive. For each integer I, it simply checks whether any smaller J evenly divides it. The total amount of work for a given N is thus roughly proportional to 1/2*N^2.

Here are the counts of the number of primes for some selected values of N:
NNumber of Primes
10
104
10025
1,000168
10,0001,229
100,0009,592
1,000,00078,498
10,000,000664,579
100,000,0005,761,455
1,000,000,00050,847,534

The following results were observed for the elapsed time.
NPiTime
1 0 0.000030
2 1 0.000016
4 2 0.000016
8 4 0.000017
16 6 0.000020
32 11 0.000030
64 18 0.000057
128 31 0.000147
256 54 0.000452
512 97 0.001548
1024 172 0.005303
2048 309 0.018660
4096 564 0.068059
8192 1028 0.246378
16384 1900 0.914953
32768 3512 3.380086
65536 6542 12.619071
131072 12251 47.412759

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

prime is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Eratosthenes,
    A Method For Finding Prime Numbers,
    Papyrus 487,
    Library of Alexandria.

Source Code:


Last revised on 28 July 2019.