thaw-sieve-of-eratosthenes/README.md

The Sieve of Eratosthenes (an ancient Greek prime number generator) as a JavaScript library

# thaw-sieve-of-eratosthenes
A JavaScript implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes, an ancient Greek prime number generator.

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Most of this project's infrastructure was stolen from Jason Mulligan's ([avoidwork](https://github.com/avoidwork)'s) [tiny-graph](http://avoidwork.github.io/tiny-graph) project.

## Installation
To install the stable version:
```
npm install --save thaw-sieve-of-eratosthenes
```

## Example
```js
const engine = require('thaw-sieve-of-eratosthenes');

console.log(engine.sieve(20)); // [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19]

console.log(engine.factorize(72)); // [2, 2, 2, 3, 3]
```

## API
#### factorize(n)
Returns the unique prime factorization of `n` as a list of integers

#### sieve(n)
Returns the list of all prime numbers less than `n`

## License
[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)