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+class SieveOfEratosthenes {
+	void sieveOfEratosthenes(int n)
+	{
+
+		boolean prime[] = new boolean[n + 1];
+		for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++)
+			prime[i] = true;
+
+		for (int p = 2; p * p <= n; p++) {
+
+			if (prime[p] == true) {
+
+				for (int i = p * p; i <= n; i += p)
+					prime[i] = false;
+			}
+		}
+
+		for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++) {
+			if (prime[i] == true)
+				System.out.print(i + " ");
+		}
+	}
+
+	public static void main(String args[])
+	{
+		int n = 30;
+		System.out.print("Following are the prime numbers ");
+		System.out.println("smaller than or equal to " + n);
+		SieveOfEratosthenes g = new SieveOfEratosthenes();
+		g.sieveOfEratosthenes(n);
+	}
+}
+