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.

>>57

I'm not >>56, I never claimed that the universe is deterministic, so I was not manipulated into validating his argument. I did however claim that the primes are deterministic. I also did claim that >>19 is unintelligent, which is an observation based on overwhelming evidence.

The fact that most of you seem unable to separate between ``the universe'' and ``the prime numbers'' is baffling to me, perhaps I am unable to dumb myself down to your level of intelligence.

Every statement I have made so far in this thread have been correct.