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authorLua Team <team@lua.org>2010-05-18 12:00:00 +0000
committerrepogen <>2010-05-18 12:00:00 +0000
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--- the sieve of of Eratosthenes programmed with coroutines
--- typical usage: lua -e N=1000 sieve.lua | column
-
--- generate all the numbers from 2 to n
-function gen (n)
- return coroutine.wrap(function ()
- for i=2,n do coroutine.yield(i) end
- end)
-end
-
--- filter the numbers generated by `g', removing multiples of `p'
-function filter (p, g)
- return coroutine.wrap(function ()
- while 1 do
- local n = g()
- if n == nil then return end
- if n % p ~= 0 then coroutine.yield(n) end
- end
- end)
-end
-
-N=N or 1000 -- from command line
-x = gen(N) -- generate primes up to N
-while 1 do
- local n = x() -- pick a number until done
- if n == nil then break end
- print(n) -- must be a prime number
- x = filter(n, x) -- now remove its multiples
-end