[oclug] Programming Wars 2.0 - September 2001

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Vic Gedris <vic at worldwidepunk.com> [010803 12:04]:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> 
> > Good point.  Perhaps someone could write a script to take this web page
> > and convert it into the output of what we expect.  Then the diff could
> > be ran against that.
> >
> > BTW,  What is the upper bound of the numbers that the program should
> > support?  i.e. how many primes do you expect to find?
> 
> 
> That's not specified.  Ideally it would be infinite...  But I'd be more
> worried about blowing the boundaries of an int for the actual prime
> numbers (or would that take forever?  Hmmm...)

Sounds to me like I will be submitting two entries... finite and infinite.
Obviously with the overhead of 64+ bit numbers and printing them, the later
will not be a fast solution.

B.

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