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.

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Ahahahaha ok I'm gonna come clean with you. I'm dicking around with you a bit. But that being said, I don't know too much about math (other than what I've taught my self when I needed it). I like to make applets and grease monkey scripts here and there... But seriously, you seem to be getting a bit too worked up over this. I had no idea that Pi's xth digit could be calculated by itself, that's pretty cool. Maybe the world is deterministic. I don't know for sure, and I'm pretty sure you don't either. I chose to troll you a bit because you reminded me of a friend of mine who insists that 'god doesn't exist'. He just couldn't except that he didn't know the answer, so he just stuck to the one he was most comfortable with. He had no tolerance for uncertainty. I hope that you really do have valid proof that the world is deterministic, or else you are just another neurotic trying desperately to cope with having to live in a world you can't control.