Suppose You Have Been Asked to Find as Many Prime

question 54

Multiple Choice

Suppose you have been asked to find as many prime numbers as possible. (A prime number is one that cannot be evenly divided by any smaller integer other than 1.) You know that it is impossible to test all the positive integers, so you devise a strategy for testing only certain numbers that you guess might be primes. Your way of solving this problem makes use of

• A) heuristics.
• B) an algorithm.
• C) a prototype.
• D) base-rate information.

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