Sieve theory
Sieve theory Sieve theory is a set of general techniques ... X. Correspondingly, the primordial example of a sieve is the sieve of Eratosthenes, or the more general Legendre sieve. The direct attack on prime numbers ...
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Molecular sieve   (translated from Japanese)
Molecular sieve Molecular sieve(The ぶ it is to do, screen and Molecular sieve), each substance which is dealt with molecule ... addition the effect is called the molecular sieve effect, but really adsorption and is brought ... the high-molecular make pore (the molecular sieve) the substance above the molecular weight ...
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Rational sieve
Rational sieve In mathematics, the rational sieve is a general algorithm for factoring integers ... special case of the general number field sieve, and while it is far less efficient ... to understand how the general number field sieve works. Method Suppose we are trying to ... size of P), we can use the methods of linear algebra to multiply together ...
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Large sieve
Large sieve In mathematics, the large sieve is a method of analytic number theory ... was at least originally concerned, as a sieve method, with (for example) sifting from an ... modulus are excluded. That is, a large sieve, where a proportion of residue classes is ... is to be distinguished from a small sieve , in which perhaps only a single ...
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Gold rush tools and methods
Gold rush tools and methods A variety of tools and methods were used during the Gold Rushes of ... century. This article covers the tools and methods used during the California Gold Rush, the ... boxes, gold pans, blowers, and sluice boxes. Methods River Damming River damming required groups of ... While the first method was easier, both methods dried out the river bed to ...
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Special number field sieve
Special number field sieve NSFNET redirects here. For the computer network see NSFNet. The special number field sieve (SNFS) is a special-purpose integer factorization algorithm. The general number field sieve (GNFS) was derived from it. The special number field sieve is efficient for integers of the form ... idea similar to the much simpler rational sieve; in particular, readers may find it ...
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Textile printing
... opposed to the principles of applied art. Methods of Printing Broadly speaking textile printing means ... light and washing. There are five distinct methods at present in use for producing colored ... the earliest, simplest and slowest of all methods of printing. The blocks may be made ... engraved block, a printing table and color sieve are required. The table consists of a ... drying the newly printed goods. The color sieve consists of a tub (known as ...
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Talk:Neuro-linguistic programming/ archive7
... new agey kind of ideas in his methods. Anyway, here is just one link I ... to the scientific method and collapse statistical methods (inferential and descriptive) into descriptive statistics and ... of their behaviour but continuous and probabilistic methods are used to analyse, model, verify and ... performance -- for example -- is determined using probabilistic methods. The probability distribution called the Poisson Distribution ... 100 concurrent requests at time T?'. Probabilistic methods are used to determine the probability ...
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History of mathematics
... In addition to giving area formulas and methods for multiplication, division and working with unit ... means; and simplistic understandings of both the Sieve of Eratosthenes and perfect number theory (namely ... also include multiplication tables, trigonometry tables and methods for solving linear and quadratic equations. The ... Eudoxus's method of exhaustion, and the Sieve of Eratosthenes for discovering prime numbers. They took the ad hoc methods of constructing a circle or an ...
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Primality test
... as shown below, is comparatively easy. Naïve methods The simplest primality test is as follows ... preceding can be applied recursively, giving the Sieve of Eratosthenes method. A good way to speed up these methods (and all the others mentioned below) is ... a list can be computed with the Sieve of Eratosthenes). Then, before testing n for ... compositeness of n). They are often the methods of choice, as they are much ...
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