Talk:Self numbers

Improvement to the clever sieving of purefox

It takes a lot of space for sieving all.
Thinking of a highest number to test has 12 digits then max digitcount is 12. One can use small blocks of 10,000 (or 100,000 ( 4..5 digits )) + an extension of (max digitcount)*9
So the upper limit is 10,000 +(max digitcount)*9 -1 here 10,107
For example:
After marking the first 10000 (n = 0--9999) not selfnumbers the last marked is 9999+4*9 = 100035 Now counting all selfnumbers 0..9999 than copy 10000- (max digitcount)*9 to Position 0..- (max digitcount)*9 and clear the rest to the upper limit. This can all be done lightning fast in Level I cache. Horst.h 18:20, 7 October 2020 (UTC)