Re: primetables SEGV

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Cremona wrote: [ directly to me, not to pari-dev ]
> While you are working on the prime functions, can I remind you that it
> is often useful to have the inverse function which given p returns i
> such that p=prime(i), as in the following:
[...]
> pith(x) =
> {
>   local(l,r,lx);
>   if (x <= 2, return (x==2));
>   lx = log(x);
>   l = floor(x/lx);
>   r = floor(l * (1 + 3/(2*lx)));
>   while (r-l>1,
>     m = (l+r)>>1;
>     if (prime(m)<=x, l=m, r=m));
>   l;
> }

It is already there [ install(pith, lL) ] (written by Bill). Actually this is
the standard \pi(x) = #{p <= x}.

It was not installed by default since we could not find a proper name at the
time (then we forgot about it I'm afraid...).

'pith' is not realy suitable, and 'pi' would be too confusing.

Hum, what about primepi() ?

    Karim.

P.S: Both prime() and pith() could use a builtin table [ e.g of
prime(k*10^4), k < 50, then prime(K * 10^6), K < 50 ] to make larger strides.

P.S2: Anybody interested in implementing analytic algorithms for the basic
prime-counting functions ? (M, pi, psi)

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