C++ and Java Code for Sieve of Eratosthenes

The sieve of Eratosthenes is one of the most efficient ways to find all primes smaller than n when n is smaller than 10 million or so. Following is the algorithm to find all the prime numbers less than or equal to a given integer n by the Eratosthenes method:

When the algorithm terminates, all the numbers in the list that are not marked are prime.

• Firstly write all the numbers from 2,3,4…. n
• Now take the first prime number and mark all its multiples as visited.
• Now when you move forward take another number which is unvisited yet and then follow the same step-2 with that number.
• All numbers in the list left unmarked when the algorithm ends are referred to as prime numbers.

C++ Implementation

void SieveOfEratosthenes(int n) { bool prime[n + 1]; memset(prime, true, sizeof(prime)); for (int p = 2; p * p <= n; p++) { if (prime[p] == true) { for (int i = p * p; i <= n; i += p) prime[i] = false; } } for (int p = 2; p <= n; p++) if (prime[p]) cout << p << " "; } 

Java Implementation

class SieveOfEratosthenes { void sieveOfEratosthenes(int n) { boolean prime[] = new boolean[n + 1]; for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++) prime[i] = true; for (int p = 2; p * p <= n; p++){ if (prime[p] == true) { for (int i = p * p; i <= n; i += p) prime[i] = false; } } for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++) { if (prime[i] == true) System.out.print(i + " "); } } } 

Time complexity of Sieve of Eratosthenes :
o(n * (log(log(n)))).

Space complexity: O(1)
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