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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">prime</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span> <span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span> <span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">Policy</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">uint32_t</span> <span class="identifier">prime</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">Policy</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">pol</span><span class="special">);</span>
<span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">uint32_t</span> <span class="identifier">prime</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">);</span>
<span class="keyword">static</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="identifier">max_prime</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="number">10000</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="special">}}</span> <span class="comment">// namespaces</span>
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The function <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">prime</span></code> provides
fast table lookup to the first 10000 prime numbers (starting from 2 as the
zeroth prime: as 1 isn't terribly useful in practice). There are two function
signatures one of which takes an optional <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Chapter&#160;14.&#160;Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a>
as the second parameter to control error handling.
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The constant <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">max_prime</span></code> is
the largest value you can pass to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">prime</span></code>
without incurring an error.
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Passing a value greater than <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">max_prime</span></code>
results in a <a class="link" href="../error_handling.html#math_toolkit.error_handling.domain_error">domain_error</a>
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