-- The Great Computer Language Shootout -- http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ -- contributed by Mike Pall local floor, ceil = math.floor, math.ceil local precision = 50 -- Maximum precision of lua_Number (minus safety margin). local onebits = (2^precision)-1 local function nsieve(p, m) local cm = ceil(m/precision) do local onebits = onebits; for i=0,cm do p[i] = onebits end end local count, idx, bit = 0, 2, 2 for i=2,m do local r = p[idx] / bit if r - floor(r) >= 0.5 then -- Bit set? local kidx, kbit = idx, bit for k=i+i,m,i do kidx = kidx + i while kidx >= cm do kidx = kidx - cm; kbit = kbit + kbit end local x = p[kidx] local r = x / kbit if r - floor(r) >= 0.5 then p[kidx] = x - kbit*0.5 end -- Clear bit. end count = count + 1 end idx = idx + 1 if idx >= cm then idx = 0; bit = bit + bit end end return count end local N = tonumber(arg and arg[1]) or 1 if N < 2 then N = 2 end local primes = {} for i=0,2 do local m = (2^(N-i))*10000 io.write(string.format("Primes up to %8d %8d\n", m, nsieve(primes, m))) end