Given a number n, print all primes smaller than or equal to n. It is also given that n is a small number.
For example, if n is 10, the output should be “2, 3, 5, 7”. If n is 20, the output should be “2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19”.

The sieve of Eratosthenes is one of the most efficient ways to find all primes smaller than n when n is smaller than 10 million

Explanation with Example:
Let us take an example when n = 50. So we need to print all print numbers smaller than or equal to 50.

We create a list of all numbers from 2 to 50

According to the algorithm we will mark all the numbers which are divisible by 2.

Now we move to our next unmarked number 3 and mark all the numbers which are multiples of 3.

We move to our next unmarked number 5 and mark all multiples of 5.

We continue this process and our final table will look like below:

So the prime numbers are the unmarked ones: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47.

Implementation:
Following is C++ implementation of the above algorithm. In the following implementation, a boolean array arr[] of size n is used to mark multiples of prime numbers.

// C++ program to print all primes smaller than or equal to
// n using Sieve of Eratosthenes
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
void SieveOfEratosthenes(int n)
{
    // Create a boolean array "prime[0..n]" and initialize
    // all entries it as true. A value in prime[i] will
    // finally be false if i is Not a prime, else true.
    bool prime[n+1];
    memset(prime, true, sizeof(prime));
 
    for (int p=2; p*p<=n; p++)
    {
        // If prime[p] is not changed, then it is a prime
        if (prime[p] == true)
        {
            // Update all multiples of p
            for (int i=p*2; i<=n; i += p)
                prime[i] = false;
        }
    }
 
    // Print all prime numbers
    for (int p=2; p<=n; p++)
       if (prime[p])
          cout << p << " ";
}
 
// Driver Program to test above function
int main()
{
    int n = 30;
    cout << "Following are the prime numbers smaller "
         << " than or equal to " << n << endl;
    SieveOfEratosthenes(n);
    return 0;
}

Output:

Following are the prime numbers below 30
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29