[QUOTE=3.14159;226307]You said I made several contradictory names for various prime forms, and you were therefore accusing me of being internally inconsistent. Please show where I am internally inconsistent.[/QUOTE]

So read again:

[QUOTE=CRGreathouse;226263]I can never keep track of all the names (especially since some are contradictory... e.g. several definitions for generalized Fermats). What form are these?[/QUOTE]

He never accused [b]you[/b]! It was meant generally!

Alright: My sieve only requires three arguments, as it is just Generalized proths. (Two for the kmin/kmax, one for the base and exponent)

Now it should be far easier to make all the appropriate substitutions and so on.

@CRG/sm88: Any hints on the appropriate substitutions, as the amount of arguments are the same?

Here is the [B]original[/B] code:


[code]sieve(lim, sz, sm=1)={
my(v=vectorsmall(sz,i,1));
forprime(p=3,p2,
b=znorder(Mod(2,p));
trap(,next,
a=znlog(2293,Mod(2,p))
);
if(Mod(2,p)^a!=2293, print("bad at "p);next);
a+=b*ceil((sm-a)/b);
forstep(n=a,sz,b,
v[n]=0
)
);
a=0;
for(i=sm,sz,if(v[i],a++;write("abc.txt", i)));
a
};[/code]

Make as many substitutions and modifications as you'd like. I'll try to make the appropriate substitutions/modifications to see if I can reach a finished product.

I thought of substituting the variables with the variables I designated, but this essentially does the same, and prints out the same factors, except it does so up to 10[sup]6[/sup].

Now it seems that substitutions didn't cut it. Any recommended modifications, anyone?

one thing i find is you have a variable p2 declared as a maximum but no definition of it before hand that I know of.

[QUOTE=science_man_88]one thing i find is you have a variable p2 declared as a maximum but no definition of it before hand that I know of.
[/QUOTE]

Damn. I forgot to change that to "lim".

since you use znlog() you can just check if a is a factorial because g^n=x n gets stored in a so if a=c! then the exponent to check is c! not a! so checking if a is a factorial means if true a!=c!! or a double factorial if such a thing exist anyway I'll shut up.

you write i but unless you have a seperator you won't be able to figure out what's what in abc.txt I know I couldn't so adding "," to that call might be warranted if you want it to be understood.

[CODE]a=0;y=Vec(input());for(x=1,3,for(i=1,#y,for(p=2,#try[x]-1,if(y[i+(p-1)]==try[x][p],a=a+1;print("really")));if(a==#try[x]-2)))[/CODE]

is my newest attempt at what I wanted to help CRG with. unfortunately this gives me errors.

can setsearch be used on strings if it could we can use that as find and possibly replace if we can find a way to make sure the replacement can fit into it.

got it without errors but not working.

I have other ideas about how to but I don't know enough on the routines.
I was also thinking vecextract.