From: jzakiya <jzakiya@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T07:05:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ultimate Prime Sieve -- Sieve of Zakiya (SoZ)

On Jun 9, 4:22 am, Michael Ulm <michael....@isis-papyrus.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --snip--
>
> 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

Have you run all my coded examples?

Can you provide empirical results for other methods and their code?

Jabari