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NAME¶
primes
—
generate primes
SYNOPSIS¶
primes |
[-d start
[ ]stop ] |
DESCRIPTION¶
Theprimes
utility prints primes in ascending
order, one per line, starting at or above
start and continuing until, but not including
stop. The
start value must be at least 0 and not
greater than stop. The
stop value must not be greater than the
maximum possible value of unsigned integer types on your system (4294967295
for 32-bit systems and 18446744073709551615 for 64-bit systems). The default
value of stop is 4294967295 on 32-bit and
18446744073709551615 on 64-bit.
When the primes
utility is invoked with no
arguments, start is read from standard input.
stop is taken to be 4294967295 on 32-bit and
18446744073709551615 on 64-bit. The start
value may be preceded by a single ‘+’. The
start value is terminated by a non-digit
character (such as a newline). The input line must not be longer than 255
characters. When given the -d
argument,
primes
prints the difference between the
current and the previous prime.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
Out of range or invalid input results in an appropriate error message being written to standard error.BUGS¶
primes
won't get you a world record.February 3, 2008 | Debian |