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   "R Flowers"  wrote in message   
   news:Ee_kf.598193$x96.61298@attbi_s72...   
      
   > It was to save memory. My first machine was a 4K Level I TRS-80. There   
   > were a lot of examples out there at the time on how to save precious   
   > memory. It certainly wasn't laziness; when I was coding I would mostly use   
   > spaces, for readability and debugging. Only if I started to bump up   
   > against the RAM ceiling would I go back and start eliminating spaces.   
      
   I wrote a program to calculate prime numbers in Level I by casting out (   
   "Sieve of Eratosthenes" ).   
      
   I used the screen as the memory space to do this and then print out the   
   answers.   
      
   That gave me an array of 6144 numbers IIRC. You do what you must.   
      
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