I and my friend had a fun idea over the weekend. How many primes can we compute? And so we got to work:
My friend wrote the first algorithm in Scratch, then I rewrote it into Python and then C. We let it run for 7 hours on my computer to compute the first 100 million.
Then we found out the trial division might not the fastest way to do things... (*sighs in exaustion*)
It took us about two days to write a sieve of eratosthenes algorithm and it computed the first 1 billion in about 4 minutes. (although my 36GB ram + 2GB swap laptop almost ran out of memory)
Lojban is an engineered language for everyday speak. It can be used to explain complex or abstract ideas, as well as everyday things.
It is simple, with 1400 base words, phonetic spelling and no irregularities. It is non-gendered (although you can still represent genders) and it doesnt have tenses (although you can still represent time).
It has clear logical rules, and so things said in Lojban should be able to be interpreted in only one way.
Me and my friend started learning it as a way to represent complex and highly abstract ideas in shorter and better defined language.