Phoxis

This is a post to present one method to inverse the bit pattern of an input number, the bitwise not operation on a bit pattern. I am presenting one method which i figured out.
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Objective

Generating prime numbers within a range using bash script. The technique used in this implementation to generate the prime numbers is still the good old divide and check method, but with some tweaks attempting to make the execution a bit better.

Approach

The core method is, we check if an integer p is prime by:

1. Dividing with integers which are not multiples of 2′s and 3′s
2. Dividing with integers upto floor ( sqrt ( p ) )

The integer p itself is needed to be not divisible by 2 or 3 or both.
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Some days back I got a collection of 100 Greatest Piano Works cd collection. The first thing I did was to rip the CD in flac and preserve a lossless copy of the disks. Then I converted those to ogg files (with oggenc ) so that I could take it in my iPod and listen at any time. The problem occurred at the final moment when I realized that the file names were really long and which would be very difficult to scan through my iPod (with Rockbox). The file name was in this format : %n – %a – %t.ogg  for example : For example :
“17 – Robert Schumann (1810-1856) – THE DAVIDSBÜNDLER DANCES, 18 CHARACTERISTIC PIECES, OP. 6: XIV. Zart und singend – Dolce e cantando.ogg” . The western classical musics this combination is very long most almost all the tracks, and these files with huge file names and lot of files having ‘:’ in the name being refused to copied directly. So I needed to truncate or rename the 100 files in a way so that they are identifiable and also truncated to short names.
I decided to keep only the track name and composers names (%n – %a fields), by renaming the files with some batch file renaming process. Continue reading →