Programming Praxis

Today’s exercise comes from Stack Overflow:

Given a number N and a set of numbers s = {s1, s2, …, sn} where s1 < s2 < … < sn < N, remove all multiples of {s1, s2, …, sn} from the range 1..N.

You should look at the original post on Stack Overflow. The poster gets the answer wrong (he excludes 3), he get the explanation of his wrong answer wrong (he excludes 10 as a multiple of 2), and his algorithm is odd, to say the least. I’m not making fun of him, but I see this kind of imprecision of thought all the time on the beginner-programmer discussion boards, and I can only think that he will struggle to have a successful programming career.

Your task is to write a program that removes multiples from a range, as described above. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

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