Sieve of Atkin explanation

Question

I am doing a project at the moment and I need an efficient method for calculating prime numbers. I have used the sieve of Eratosthenes but, I have been searching around and

Answer 1

// Title : Seive of Atkin ( Prime number Generator) 

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
    long long int n;
    cout<<"Enter the value of n : ";
    cin>>n;
    vector is_prime(n+1);
    for(long long int i = 5; i <= n; i++)
    {
        is_prime[i] = false;
    }
    long long int lim = ceil(sqrt(n));

    for(long long int x = 1; x <= lim; x++)
    {
        for(long long int y = 1; y <= lim; y++)
        {
            long long int num = (4*x*x+y*y);
            if(num <= n && (num % 12 == 1 || num%12 == 5))
            {
                is_prime[num] = true;
            }

            num = (3*x*x + y*y);
            if(num <= n && (num % 12 == 7))
            {
                is_prime[num] = true;
            }

            if(x > y)
            {
                num = (3*x*x - y*y);
                if(num <= n && (num % 12 == 11))
                {
                    is_prime[num] = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    // Eliminating the composite by seiveing
    for(long long int i = 5; i <= lim; i++)
    {
        if(is_prime[i])
            for(long long int j = i*i; j <= n; j += i)
            {
                is_prime[j] = false;
            }
    }
    // Here we will start printing of prime number
   if(n > 2)
   {
       cout<<"2\t"<<"3\t";
   }
   for(long long int i = 5; i <= n; i++)
   {
         if(is_prime[i])
         {
             cout<