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-primes
+# Primes with go
+
+A simple program that calculates prime numbers with multithreading.
+The resulting numbers are written to stdout and to the file primes.txt.
+
+## Usage
+
+```sh
+# compile
+go build primes.go
+
+# executable
+chmod +x ./primes
+
+# run
+./primes [<start number>]
+```