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Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar of the third century BC born in Cyrene, Roman Greek city near modern day Shahhat in Lybia who went on to become chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria Egypt (via studying at Athens Greece).

He devised the algorithm in ancient Greece, possibly in either Athens or Alexandria.

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