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by ufo 3970 days ago
The prime sieve algorithm in chapter 3 is not the real sieve of Eratosthenes. Which is kind of funny because the person who pointed this out to the FP community is also a professor at Harvey Mudd.

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf

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Thank you! We took a liberty here but have just updated the online book to clarify this.