primes: Efficient, purely functional generation of prime numbers

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This Haskell library provides an efficient lazy wheel sieve for prime generation inspired by Lazy wheel sieves and spirals of primes by Colin Runciman and The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes by Melissa O'Neil.

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Versions [RSS]	0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.1.1, 0.2.0.0, 0.2.1.0
Dependencies	base (>=4 && <5) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	Sebastian Fischer
Maintainer	Sebastian Fischer
Category	Algorithms, Numerical
Home page	http://github.com/sebfisch/primes
Bug tracker	http://github.com/sebfisch/primes/issues
Source repo	head: git clone git://github.com/sebfisch/primes.git
Uploaded	by SebastianFischer at 2011-04-29T09:38:55Z
Distributions	Arch:0.2.1.0, Debian:0.2.1.0, Fedora:0.2.1.0, LTSHaskell:0.2.1.0, NixOS:0.2.1.0, Stackage:0.2.1.0, openSUSE:0.2.1.0
Reverse Dependencies	18 direct, 141 indirect [details]
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This Haskell library provides an efficient lazy wheel sieve for prime
generation inspired by "Lazy wheel sieves and spirals of primes" [1]
by Colin Runciman and "The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes" [2] by
Melissa O'Neil.

[1]: <http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/colin/jfp97lw.ps.gz>
[2]: <http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf>