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return array of primes below limit using Sieve of Atkin Algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Atkin #JavaScript #primes
function sieveOfAtkin(limit){
var limitSqrt = Math.sqrt(limit);
var sieve = [];
var n;
//prime start from 2, and 3
sieve[2] = true;
sieve[3] = true;
for (var x = 1; x <= limitSqrt; x++) {
var xx = x*x;
for (var y = 1; y <= limitSqrt; y++) {
var yy = y*y;
if (xx + yy >= limit) {
break;
}
// first quadratic using m = 12 and r in R1 = {r : 1, 5}
n = (4 * xx) + (yy);
if (n <= limit && (n % 12 == 1 || n % 12 == 5)) {
sieve[n] = !sieve[n];
}
// second quadratic using m = 12 and r in R2 = {r : 7}
n = (3 * xx) + (yy);
if (n <= limit && (n % 12 == 7)) {
sieve[n] = !sieve[n];
}
// third quadratic using m = 12 and r in R3 = {r : 11}
n = (3 * xx) - (yy);
if (x > y && n <= limit && (n % 12 == 11)) {
sieve[n] = !sieve[n];
}
}
}
// false each primes multiples
for (n = 5; n <= limitSqrt; n++) {
if (sieve[n]) {
x = n * n;
for (i = x; i <= limit; i += x) {
sieve[i] = false;
}
}
}
//primes values are the one which sieve[x] = true
return sieve;
}
primes = sieveOfAtkin(5000);
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farskid commented Jul 15, 2016

This a performance friendly implementation as stated in wikipedia. But the output seems to be useless cause indexes of an array as the prime numbers cant be used anywhere.
See this link for a converter I coded to return a list of actual prime numbers.
https://gist.github.com/farskid/3501b1b981607483a46b76d61e092e6e

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