Prime numbers

Does anyone else find the Sieve of Eratosthenes and the ilk a totally pointless concept?

It like over optimising a Java program that could be written in C in a short space of time.

>>14
That has not been established. Luckily it is to broad to have anything do with the question at hand.

>>15
I don't think "deterministic" is the quality you're investigating here. Until you can express yourself better you're going to get nowhere.