How to create the most compact mapping n → isprime(n) up to a limit N?

Question

Naturally, for bool isprime(number) there would be a data structure I could query.
I define the best algorithm, to be the algorithm that pr

Answer 1

Smallest memory? This isn't smallest, but is a step in the right direction.

class PrimeDictionary {
    BitArray bits;

    public PrimeDictionary(int n) {
        bits = new BitArray(n + 1);
        for (int i = 0; 2 * i + 3 <= n; i++) {
            bits.Set(i, CheckPrimality(2 * i + 3));
        }
    }

    public PrimeDictionary(IEnumerable<int> primes) {
        bits = new BitArray(primes.Max());
        foreach(var prime in primes.Where(p => p != 2)) {
            bits.Set((prime - 3) / 2, true);
        }
    }

    public bool IsPrime(int k) {
        if (k == 2) {
            return true;
        }
        if (k % 2 == 0) {
            return false;
        }
        return bits[(k - 3) / 2];
    }
}

Of course, you have to specify the definition of CheckPrimality.

Answer 2

You could try something like this.

def main():
    try:
        user_in = int(input("Enter a number to determine whether the number is prime or not: "))
    except ValueError:
        print()
        print("You must enter a number!")
        print()
        return
    list_range = list(range(2,user_in+1))
    divisor_list = []
    for number in list_range:
        if user_in%number==0:
            divisor_list.append(number)
    if len(divisor_list) < 2:
        print(user_in, "is a prime number!")
        return
    else:
        print(user_in, "is not a prime number!")
        return
main()

Answer 3

bool isPrime(int n) {
if(n <= 3)
    return (n > 1)==0? false: true;
else if(n%2 == 0 || n%3 == 0)
    return false;

int i = 5;

while(i * i <= n){
    if(n%i == 0 || (n%(i+2) == 0))
        return false;
    i = i + 6;
}

return true;
}

for any number, the minimum iterations to check if the number is prime or not can be from 2 to square root of the number. To reduce the iterations, even more, we can check if the number is divisible by 2 or 3 as maximum numbers can be eliminated by checking if the number is divisible by 2 or 3. Further any prime number greater than 3 can be expressed as 6k+1 or 6k-1. So the iteration can go from 6k+1 to the square root of the number.

Answer 4

Similar idea to the AKS algorithm which has been mentioned

public static boolean isPrime(int n) {

    if(n == 2 || n == 3) return true;
    if((n & 1 ) == 0 || n % 3 == 0) return false;
    int limit = (int)Math.sqrt(n) + 1;
    for(int i = 5, w = 2; i <= limit; i += w, w = 6 - w) {
        if(n % i == 0) return false;
        numChecks++;
    }
    return true;
}

Answer 5

To find if the number or numbers in a range is/are prime.

#!usr/bin/python3

def prime_check(*args):
    for arg in args:
        if arg > 1:     # prime numbers are greater than 1
            for i in range(2,arg):   # check for factors
                if(arg % i) == 0:
                    print(arg,"is not Prime")
                    print(i,"times",arg//i,"is",arg)
                    break
            else:
                print(arg,"is Prime")
                
            # if input number is less than
            # or equal to 1, it is not prime
        else:
            print(arg,"is not Prime")
    return
    
# Calling Now
prime_check(*list(range(101)))  # This will check all the numbers in range 0 to 100 
prime_check(#anynumber)         # Put any number while calling it will check.

Answer 6

With help of Java-8 streams and lambdas, it can be implemented like this in just few lines:

public static boolean isPrime(int candidate){
        int candidateRoot = (int) Math.sqrt( (double) candidate);
        return IntStream.range(2,candidateRoot)
                .boxed().noneMatch(x -> candidate % x == 0);
    }

Performance should be close to O(sqrt(N)). Maybe someone find it useful.