jzakiya wrote:
> This is to announce the release of my paper "Ultimate Prime Sieve --
> Sieve of Zakiiya (SoZ)" in which I show and explain the development of
> a class of Number Theory Sieves to generate prime numbers. I also use
> the number theory to then create the fastest, and deterministic,
> primality tester.  I used Ruby 1.9.0-1 as my development environment
> on a P4 2.8 Ghz laptop.
> 
> You can get the pdf of my paper from here:
> 
> http://www.4shared.com/dir/7467736/97bd7b71/sharing.html
> 
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Hi, just skimmed over your paper. Nice work, but you seem
somewhat overenthusiastic about it. Your sieve looks very
much like Wheel factorization to me.

Also, your primality test is a lot slower than known methods
(like the AKS primality test which has been mentioned on this
list a few weeks ago).

Keep your passion for Ruby and mathematics.

Regards,

Michael