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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<maintainer type="project">
+ <email>sci-mathematics@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Gentoo Mathematics Project</name>
+</maintainer>
+<longdescription lang="en">
+ primegen is a small, fast library to generate prime numbers in
+ order. It generates the 50847534 primes up to 1000000000 in just 8
+ seconds on a Pentium II-350; it prints them in decimal in just 35
+ seconds.
+
+ primegen can generate primes up to 1000000000000000, although it
+ is not optimized for primes past 32 bits. It uses the Sieve of Atkin
+ instead of the traditional Sieve of Eratosthenes.
+</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>