MATHO-PRIMES(1) 					       Mathomatic Utilities						   MATHO-PRIMES(1)

NAME

       matho-primes - generate consecutive prime numbers

SYNOPSIS

       matho-primes [start [stop]] ["twin"] ["pal" [base]]
       matho-primes [-htu] [-c count] [-m number] [-p base] [start [stop]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  command-line  utility  is	optionally part of the mathomatic(1) package.  It quickly computes any number of consecutive prime numbers
       using a windowing, memory efficient sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm, dumping them to standard output.  They are	displayed  one	prime  per
       line in ascending order, unless the "twin" option is specified, which displays only twin primes, two primes per line.

       Generates  up  to  18 decimal digit primes, or whatever is the number of digits of precision for a floating point long double in the C com-
       piler used to compile this utility.  Note that this utility might be compiled to use only double precision floating point, if  long  double
       precision is not fully supported by the C compiler or hardware, allowing at most 15 decimal digit primes in that case.

       Ways to verify that this utility is working are to pipe the output into the Unix "factor" utility, or compare the output with the BSD Games
       "primes" utility.

       All numbers displayed by this utility are decimal (base 10) prime numbers.  A prime number is an integer that cannot be factored.

       A range may be specified on the command line, otherwise the starting number and the number of primes to output is prompted for.	The  range
       is start to stop inclusive, and stop must be greater than or equal to start.

       If the -c option is specified, the number of lines of primes displayed is limited to the decimal count that follows this option.

       If the -t or "twin" option is specified on the command line, only twin primes will be displayed.  Twin primes are two primes that differ in
       value by 2.  Each twin pair is displayed together on the same line separated by a space character.

       If the -p or "pal" option is specified on the command line, only palindromic primes are displayed.  Palindromes are symmetrical, they  read
       exactly	the same forward and backward.	The palindromic number base may be specified, the default is base 10.  The base can be any integer
       greater than 1.	Primes are always displayed in decimal (base 10).

       The version number and short help on the allowed command-line parameters and usage information are displayed when given the -h option.

       With the -u option, all output (standard output and standard error output) is set to be unbuffered, making all output  happen  immediately,
       instead of when the output buffer is full or when the program terminates or waits for input.

       The -m option changes the memory size of the prime number sieve window.	It is followed by a decimal, floating point number which is a mul-
       tiplier of the default window size.  It is possible that changing the memory size may speed up the total run time; otherwise  there  is	no
       reason to use this option.

AUTHOR

       George Gesslein II (gesslein@mathomatic.org) at "http://www.mathomatic.org".

REPORTING BUGS

       If you find a bug, please report it to the author or at "https://launchpad.net/mathomatic".

SEE ALSO

       mathomatic(1), primorial(1), matho-mult(1), matho-sum(1)

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