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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 | Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 |