Talk:Prime numbers
Revision as of 16:41, 5 February 2007 by MathematicalOrchid (talk | contribs) (An interesting thought)
Here's an interesting question: will the program go faster if we replace all those (n >) expressions with (\x -> floor (sqrt n) > x)?
On one hand, a composite integer cannot possess a factor greater than its square root.
On the other hand, since the list we're looking through contains all possible prime numbers, we are guaranteed to find a factor or an exact match eventually, so do we need the takeWhile at all?
Throwing this over to somebody with a bigger brain than me...
MathematicalOrchid 16:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)