[libmath-prime-util-perl] 69/72: Documentation update
Partha P. Mukherjee
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commit 42d15b459c251b631939f09f81fabc4eee3dbf5a
Author: Dana Jacobsen <dana at acm.org>
Date: Mon Oct 14 18:36:59 2013 -0700
Documentation update
---
lib/Math/Prime/Util/PrimeIterator.pm | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/Math/Prime/Util/PrimeIterator.pm b/lib/Math/Prime/Util/PrimeIterator.pm
index f5ab634..8a43233 100644
--- a/lib/Math/Prime/Util/PrimeIterator.pm
+++ b/lib/Math/Prime/Util/PrimeIterator.pm
@@ -214,18 +214,14 @@ The iterator is unchanged after this call.
Returns an estimate of the index corresponding to the argument. That is,
given a value C<n>, we expect a prime approximately equal to C<n> to occur
-at this index..
+at this index.
The estimate is performed using L<Math::Prime::Util/prime_count_approx>,
which uses the estimates of Dusart 2010 (or better for small values).
-This has an error two or more orders of magnitude less than the estimate
-used by L<Math::NumSeq::Primes>. E.g. given a value of 86028121 whose
-true index is 5000000, this method returns 5000067 while
-Math::NumSeq::Primes returns 4708661.
=head2 value_to_i
-If the argument is prime, then returns the index. In this case:
+If the argument is prime, returns the corresponding index, such that:
ith( value_to_i( $n ) ) == $n
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