Thanks a lot for help. I have much better understanding of laziness
now! But I guess I'll need to do some more math research, because both
algorithms provided here (my + removed laziness and the one from
Meikel) are too slow for calculating all primes below 2000000.

On Jan 26, 4:48 pm, Chouser <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
>
> > On Jan 26, 3:33 pm, Chouser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Of course with this algorithm you *need* filter to be lazy, or
> >> you'd never get past the first iteration of the loop.
>
> > I'm sorry. I have to ask.
>
> > Why?
>
> Hm, now that you ask, I see I didn't read the code carefully
> enough.  I was assuming the numbers seq was infinitely long.
>
> --Chouserhttp://joyofclojure.com/

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