#🔒 Why is this prime sieve adding and witholding some numbers?

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uncut minnow
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I suggest you run it with a debugger and investigate it line by line to find the cause

manic adder
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It doesn't leave out 5.

wraith merlin
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This code is very hard to read, naming variables a single letter is a bad practice

summer gate
manic adder
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I think a single letter is fine for variables like x, y, and n or i. Adding more characters won't make them more expressive.

summer gate
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if you name a variable by their function or use its more helpful to look into in later into the code

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personally i wont remember what n does by last line

manic adder
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Eh, but for example the x variable is just that. It has no meaning beyond that. It's from a mathematical formula like 4x²+y²=n

summer gate
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i know sieve of erasthones brother

manic adder
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Atkin wasn't the brother of Eratosthenes. He was born about 2200 years later. 🙂

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signal crystal
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