Counting Prime Numbers – Java SE Multi Threaded using BigInteger

Hope everybody enjoyed a good weekend.

So, this weekend I was going through the Programming Praxis website, and this problem caught my eye.

Prime numbers, they are a fascinating subject for mathematicians for several centuries now. Although there are other and faster methods of counting prime numbers up to a range, this method involves some rather unique programming techniques, like using very big numbers, looping through large mathematical range in parallel etc.
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