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cheating at prime numbers
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cheating_primes.clj
; creating a seq of prime numbers should *NOT* be this easy!
; this has been around since Java 5, apparently
(defn prime-seq
"Returns a lazy seq of primes (optionally starting from n)"
([] (prime-seq 0))
([n] (let [next-prime #(.nextProbablePrime %)]
(iterate next-prime (next-prime (bigint n))))))
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