A program for finding all primes in a very large given range of integers

I came across this following question on a programming website: Peter wants to generate some prime numbers for his cryptosystem. Help him! Your task is to generate all primes between two given numbers!

Enter

Input starts with the number t of test cases in one line (t <= 10). In each of the next t lines there are two numbers m and n (1 <= m <= n <= 1000000000, nm <= 100000), separated by a space.

I came up with the following solution:

import java.util.*;

public class PRIME1 {
    static int numCases;
    static int left, right;
    static boolean[] initSieve = new boolean[32000];
    static boolean[] answer;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        numCases = sc.nextInt();
        initSieve[0] = true;
        initSieve[1] = true;
        Sieve();
        for (int j = 0; j < numCases; j++) {
            String line = sc.next();
            String line2 = sc.next();
            left = Integer.parseInt(line);
            right = Integer.parseInt(line2);
            answer = new boolean[right - left + 1];
            getAnswer();
            for (int i = 0; i < answer.length; i++) {
                if (!answer[i]) {
                    int ans = i + left;
                    System.out.println(ans);
                }
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
    }

    public static void Sieve() {

        for (int i = 2; i < 32000; i++) {
            if (!initSieve[i]) {
                for (int j = 2 * i; j < 32000; j += i) {
                    initSieve[j] = true;
                }
            }
            if (i * i > 32000)
                break;
        }
    }

    public static void getAnswer() {
        for (int i = 2; i < 32000 && i <= right; i++) {
            if (!initSieve[i]) {
                int num = i;
                if (num * 2 >= left) {
                    num *= 2;
                } else {
                    num = (num * (left / num));
                    if (num < left)
                        num += i;
                }
                for (int j = num; j >= left && j <= right; j += i) {
                    answer[j - left] = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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public int[] chunk(int m, int n) {
    if (n < 2) return null;
    if (m < 2) m = 2;
    if (n < m) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Borked");
    int root = (int)Math.sqrt((double)n);
    boolean[] sieve = new boolean[n-m+1];
    // primes is the global array of primes to 31621 populated earlier
    // primeCount is the number of primes stored in primes, i.e. 3401
    // We ignore even numbers, but keep them in the sieve to avoid index arithmetic.
    // It would be very simple to omit them, though.
    for(int i = 1, p = primes[1]; i < primeCount; ++i) {
        if ((p = primes[i]) > root) break;
        int mult;
        if (p*p < m) {
            mult = (m-1)/p+1;
            if (mult % 2 == 0) ++mult;
            mult = p*mult;
        } else {
            mult = p*p;
        }
        for(; mult <= n; mult += 2*p) {
            sieve[mult-m] = true;
        }
    }
    int count = m == 2 ? 1 : 0;
    for(int i = 1 - m%2; i < n-m; i += 2) {
        if (!sieve[i]) ++count;
    }
    int sievedPrimes[] = new int[count];
    int pi = 0;
    if (m == 2) {
        sievedPrimes[0] = 2;
        pi = 1;
    }
    for(int i = 1 - m%2; i < n-m; i += 2) {
        if (!sieve[i]) {
            sievedPrimes[pi++] = m+i;
        }
    }
    return sievedPrimes;
}

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public static BitSet primes (final int MAX)
{
     BitSet primes = new BitSet (MAX);
     // make only odd numbers candidates...
     for (int i = 3; i < MAX; i+=2)
     {
        primes.set(i);
     }
     // ... except no. 2
     primes.set (2, true);
     for (int i = 3; i < MAX; i+=2)
     {
        /*
            If a number z is already  eliminated (like 9),
             because it is itself a multiple of a prime 
            (example: 3), then all multiples of z (9) are
            already eliminated.
        */
        if (primes.get (i))
        {
            int j = 3 * i;
            while (j < MAX)
            {
                if (primes.get (j))
                    primes.set (j, false);
                j += (2 * i);
            }
        }
    }
    return primes;
}   
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boolean xIsPrime = isNotPrime[x-m];

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