The set of prime numbers

AUTHORS:

  • William Stein (2005): original version

  • Florent Hivert (2009-11): adapted to the category framework. The following methods were removed:

    • cardinality, __len__, __iter__: provided by EnumeratedSets
    • __cmp__(self, other): __eq__ is provided by UniqueRepresentation and seems to do as good a job (all test pass)
sage.sets.primes.Primes

The set of prime numbers.

EXAMPLES:

sage: P = Primes(); P
Set of all prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, ...

We show various operations on the set of prime numbers:

sage: P.cardinality()
+Infinity
sage: R = Primes()
sage: P == R
True
sage: 5 in P
True
sage: 100 in P
False

sage: len(P)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotImplementedError: infinite set