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This is supposed to be a real sieve of eratosthenes, per http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/comp150fp/archive/melissa-oneill/Sieve-JFP.pdf
(defn maintain-non-primes [non-primes]
"Remove first non-prime entry, and create new entries based on it"
(let [[n ps] (first non-primes)
xs (dissoc non-primes n)
new-non-primes (map (fn [p] [(+ n p) (cons p (xs (+ n p))) ]) ps)]
(into xs new-non-primes)))
(defn seive
([] (seive (sorted-map) 2))
([n] (take n (seive (sorted-map) 2)))
([non-primes n]
(if (= n (first (first non-primes))) ; did we hit the next non-prime?
(seive (maintain-non-primes non-primes) (+ n 1))
(cons n (lazy-seq (seive (assoc non-primes (* 2 n) [n]) (+ n 1)))))))
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