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By: Landon Curt Noll chongo (at] toad.com, ...!{sun,tolsoft}!hoptoad!chongo

chongo <for a good prime call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1> /\oo/\

.Dd February 8, 2004 .Dt PRIMES 6 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm primes .Nd generate primes .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm primes .Op Ar start Op Ar stop .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility prints primes in ascending order, one per line, starting at or above .Ar start and continuing until, but not including .Ar stop . The .Ar start value must be at least 0 and not greater than .Ar stop . The .Ar stop value must not be greater than 4294967295. The default value of .Ar stop is 4294967295.

p When the .Nm utility is invoked with no arguments, .Ar start is read from standard input. .Ar stop is taken to be 4294967295. The .Ar start value may be preceded by a single +. The .Ar start value is terminated by a non-digit character (such as a newline). The input line must not be longer than 255 characters. .Sh DIAGNOSTICS Out of range or invalid input results in an appropriate error message being written to standard error. .Sh BUGS .Nm won't get you a world record.