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Re^2: Unable to Understand grep and hash use for prime no.

by 1nickt (Canon)
on Aug 04, 2015 at 15:21 UTC ( [id://1137391]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Unable to Understand grep and hash use for prime no.
in thread Unable to Understand grep and hash use for prime no.

The OP does not use grep and hashes to calculate prime numbers. It uses a subroutine called is_prime(), which is not included in the posted code.

Could you post your version, so we can learn from it?

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^3: Unable to Understand grep and hash use for prime no.
by danaj (Friar) on Aug 05, 2015 at 08:02 UTC

    It looks like it is from "Beginning Perl" by Curtis Poe. Page 300 has the whole program, page 301 discusses is_prime() which is non-optimized trial division (checks divisibility by all integers up to sqrt(n)). Page 302 discusses the code in question which is introducing using a hash to cache the result.

    In particular, the test suite includes duplicates in its list. That's why the hash is used.

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