PrimalEx

NIF Elixir bindings for the Primal Rust library.

It utilizes the Rustler library to handle the NIF interop. Be aware of the caveats outlined in this blog post.

NOTE: version 0.2.0 and later make use of Erlang's dirty schedulers, which are supported by default in OPT 20 and later.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding prime_ex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:primal_ex, "~> 0.2.0"}]
end

You will need Rust installed as well. Official installation instructions are here

Usage examples

# Get a list of primes less than 40
PrimalEx.primes(40)
>>> {:ok, [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37]}

# Get a list of the primes between 100 and 120
PrimalEx.primes(100, 120)
>>> {:ok, [101, 103, 107, 109, 113]}

# Get a list of the first 10 primes
PrimalEx.n_primes(10)
>>> {:ok, [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29]}

# Get a list of the first 10 primes >= 1000
PrimalEx.n_primes(10, 1000)
>>> {:ok, [1009, 1013, 1019, 1021, 1031, 1033, 1039, 1049, 1051, 1061]}

# Get the 10th prime
PrimalEx.nth_prime(10)
>>> {:ok, 29}

# Count the primes below 10**9
PrimalEx.count_primes(10**9)
>>> {:ok, 50847534}