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Buchstab's sifting weights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Marc Laborde
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Université Paris 6, Mathématiques Tour 46–0, 4 Place Jussieu.
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Let be a finite sequence of positive integers. If we want to show that contains primes, or at least almost-primes (i.e. numbers with few prime factors), sieve methods give better results if weights of a certain kind are attached to the elements of .

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Copyright © University College London 1979

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