RosettaCodeData/Task/Anti-primes/Lua/anti-primes-2.lua

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Lua

-- Find the first 20 antiprimes.
-- returns a table of the first goal antiprimes
function antiprimes(goal)
local maxNumber = 0
local ndc = {} -- table of divisor counts - initially empty
local list, number, mostFactors = {}, 1, 0
while #list < goal do
if number > #ndc then
-- need a bigger table of divisor counts
maxNumber = maxNumber + 5000
ndc = {}
for i = 1, maxNumber do ndc[ i ] = 1 end
for i = 2, maxNumber do
for j = i, maxNumber, i do ndc[ j ] = ndc[ j ] + 1 end
end
end
local factors = ndc[ number ]
if factors > mostFactors then
table.insert( list, number )
mostFactors = factors
end
number = number + 1
end
return list
end
-- display the antiprimes
oo.write( table.concat( antiprimes( 20 ), " " ) )