Computing primes with CSS

I’ve been working on a redesign of this site, so doing more CSS, finally internalizing Sass, etc. During my reading, the nth-child pseudo-class caught my eye. It’s oddly specific, providing syntax like “p:nth-child(4n+3)” to select every fourth paragraph, starting with the third. It isn’t an arbitrary expression, it has to be of the form An+B, where A and B are integers, possibly negative. An elem