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software development is like 90% weird compromises to work around the limitations of the tools you use. for example: hardcoded list of prime numbers. it's faster than computing them on the fly.
FAQ
Q. what are you using these for
A. artist alley. don't worry about it.
Q. what if you need to change these
A. if we somehow find new prime numbers between approximately 1k and 10k then updating this file will be the least of our concerns
in the bad old days, every database in production had a table of numbers, as it was the easiest way to number rows in the output
I may be misremembering but isnt this (hardcoded list of primes, or powers? cant remember) also used in mario 64... or doom.
EH, I guess in general software is always this funky hehe.
calculating primes is slow and hard but looking numbers up is fast and easy. however it does make every software developer scream because it always feels unoptimal
Honestly if I as a human wanted an arbitrary prime within a given range I'd probably look up a list of primes rather than calculating them de novo so don't at all blame a computer for preferring the same...
many video games, especially older ones, use a look-up table like this for trig functions - and sometimes also for square root, division, etc. on platforms that don't have built-in cpu instructions for them
I read it as "one-thousand-primates" and thought you were doing the whole "monkeys and typewriters" thing.
I am forever reminded of the reason why software development feels like arcane spells and magic instead of using machines in the name of order and reason
It's because the machines do not know order and reason, we have to force those into them
