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Prime Number Finder

The first thing you should do is create a prime number finder without any threads. You are to do this in both Java and C++. Do this in two stages.

The first stage should be to write a function that will tell you if a given number is prime or not. Simply test the numbers from 2 up to the number to see if any of them evenly divide the number. If any do then the number is not prime. You should make sure you stop early if you discover it is not prime. And please make sure you use the correct type of loop for this (while) and don't use breaks or returns from the middle of the loop as those are poor coding practices.

The second stage is to write code that finds how many primes are in a given range. For example the number of primes in the range [10..100] is 21. And for [1,000..1,000,000] it is 78,330. Make sure your numbers come out correct for this serial test. This is simply a loop that keeps calling your prime checking first stage code.

You should also time how long it takes to determine the number. Recall that you can use System.currentTimeMillis() in Java to time your code within the code itself. In the C version, you may use the unix-level time command to do so: time ./findprime

Threading the Prime Number Finder

Once your prime number finder is working on a single thread, it is time to do it concurrently using both Java Threads and C++ Threads.

You are to simply break up the range of primes into smaller blocks given a number of threads. You should set the range and the number of threads as variables that are easy to change as I will have you make adjustments to them and rerun during the demo. Each thread should display the range it is working on as well as the final value it got over that range.

The threads should then all have their results added up and the final result displayed. Make sure you get the same results as you did in the serial version. Time this version as well.