prime numbers listing

Table of Prime Numbers Based On Eratosthenes Sieve

A Prime Number is a Positive Integer Which Has Exactly Two Factors Namely One and Itself.
One is Not a Prime Since It Has Only One Factor.
There Is No Largest Prime Number.
Eratosthenes Devised a Method of Finding Prime Numbers, by Taking a List of Positve Integers Greater Than 1 and Crossing Out In Turn The Multiples of Each Prime, Leaving The Primes Themselves Behind.
This Script Performs a Similar Task By Excluding Composite Numbers.

Number 2 is The Only Even Prime Number, followed by 3, it is the only sequence of Prime Numbers that are Possible.
There are Twin Primes in existance, (one other number in between). Examples are (5 , 7) , (17 , 19) Larger ones are (22,271 , 22,273) and (1,000,000,000,061 , 1,000,000,000,063).

Similar Scripting Style To A Well Known Programing Solution.

First Prime In List.

Nigel Watson Software. Developed :- June 1998. Enhanced :- July 2003.