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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 09:20:49 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Precalculating what numbers are prime?

   I mean strictly speaking that's just an optimization

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 09:20:48 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Before you jump into my replies, yes I know

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 09:21:42 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @cwebber So… optimus prime?
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     GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 09:25:08 JST GeePawHill

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     @cwebber You likely never met the Steve of Eratosthenes. You don't have to pre-calculate. You just have to ask Steve. There's an API for it.

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     Geoff Coffey (gwcoffey@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 12:43:08 JST Geoff Coffey

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     @cwebber Did you ever read that story about the guy who tried to use "offset into pi" as a compression algorithm?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 12:43:08 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Geoff Coffey

     @gwcoffey I didn't but I read about PiFS which used offset into pi as a FUSE filesystem, and a friend of mine used it!