Explanation of 'wheel' data on primes.clj, and version which generates wheel from initial primes. #12
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The 'wheel,' which is the centrepiece of primes.clj, is unfathomable (to me and others) without exposure to O'Neill's paper "The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes."
I have added a reference to the paper, and an explanation of the rationale of the wheel, to the primes example. I have also included another version which generates the wheel from the initial vector of primes, which allows for experimenting with length of the initial vector of primes.