5761199 [rkeene@sledge /home/rkeene/devel/old/bc-dos/Examples]$ cat -n twins.b
   1: 
   2: /* An example that finds all primes between 2 and limit. */
   3: 
   4: define primes (limit) {
   5:     auto num, p, root, i
   6: 
   7:     prime[1] = 2;
   8:     prime[2] = 3;
   9:     num = 2;
  10:     scale = 0;
  11: 
  12:     for ( p=5; p <= limit; p += 2)  {
  13: 	root = sqrt(p);
  14: 	isprime = 1;
  15: 	for ( i = 1;  i < num && prime[i] <= root; i++ ) {
  16: 	    if ( p % prime[i] == 0 ) {
  17: 		isprime = 0;
  18: 		break;
  19:             }
  20: 	}
  21: 	if (isprime) {
  22: 	    num += 1;
  23: 	    prime [num] = p;
  24: 	}
  25:      }
  26: }
  27: 
  28: 
  29: print "\ntyping 'twins (10)' will print all twin primes less than 10.\n"
  30: 
  31: define twins (limit) {
  32:    auto i;
  33: 
  34:    i = primes(limit+2);
  35: 
  36:    for (i=1; prime[i] > 0; i++) {
  37:       if ((prime[i]+2) == prime[i+1]) \
  38: 	print "twins are ", prime[i], " and ", prime[i+1], "\n"
  39:    }
  40: }
5761200 [rkeene@sledge /home/rkeene/devel/old/bc-dos/Examples]$

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