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Taylor - Theoretic Arithmetic.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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THE SIEVE OF ERATOSTHENES.<br />

Here 7 measures the first number according to 3, the second according to 5, the third according to itself, and so of the rest.<br />

Here the first number is measured by 5 according to 3, the second by 5 according to itself, the third by 5 according to 7, and so on.<br />

Here the first number is measured by 3 according to itself, the second by 3 according to 5, the third by 3 according to 7, and so of the rest.<br />

The sieve of Eratosthenes by which it is ascertained what numbers are primary, and what are composite.<br />

Eratosthenes appears, very properly, to have called the above invention a sieve; for in it the composite are separated from the incomposite numbers, just as in a<br />

sieve, the pure is separated from the impure, and that which is subtile from that which is dense and gross.

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