primes Questions

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Can someone please give me guidance on getting the primenumbers here? This is homework so I don't want the answer but some pointers would be greatly appreciated. It's really annoying me :( I thin...
Promising asked 30/6, 2013 at 10:20

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I'm trying to solve problem 3 from http://projecteuler.net. However, when I run thing program nothing prints out. What am I doing wrong? Problem: What is the largest prime factor of the number 600...
Hackneyed asked 7/3, 2013 at 18:47

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I need to write a program to input a number and output its factorial's prime factorization in the form: 4!=(2^3)*(3^1) 5!=(2^3)*(3^1)*(5^1) The problem is I still can't figure out how to get th...
Valentijn asked 17/1, 2014 at 22:5

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So I was able to solve this problem with a little bit of help from the internet and this is what I got: def isPrime(n): for i in range(2,int(n**0.5)+1): if n%i==0: return False return True B...
Euridice asked 8/3, 2013 at 2:12

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I'm new to Haskell. How to generate a list of lists which contains prime factors of next integers? Currently, I only know how to generate prime numbers: primes = map head $ iterate (\(x:xs) -&gt...
Hangup asked 22/1, 2014 at 7:35

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I have been going through prime number generation in python using the sieve of Eratosthenes and the solutions which people tout as a relatively fast option such as those in a few of the answers to ...
Schwaben asked 14/4, 2013 at 21:15

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I would just like to ask if this is a correct way of checking if number is prime or not? because I read that 0 and 1 are NOT a prime number. int num1; Console.WriteLine("Accept number:"); num1 =...
Guerrero asked 1/4, 2013 at 12:7

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Just to clarify, this is not a homework problem :) I wanted to find primes for a math application I am building & came across Sieve of Eratosthenes approach. I have written an implementation...
Lynseylynus asked 15/10, 2010 at 5:16

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In Javascript how would i find prime numbers between 0 - 100? i have thought about it, and i am not sure how to find them. i thought about doing x % x but i found the obvious problem with tha...
Dematerialize asked 15/8, 2012 at 8:57

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This is the best algorithm I could come up. def get_primes(n): numbers = set(range(n, 1, -1)) primes = [] while numbers: p = numbers.pop() primes.append(p) numbers.difference_update(set(rang...
Georgiageorgian asked 14/1, 2010 at 23:40

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Two part question: Trying to determine the largest prime factor of 600851475143, I found this program online that seems to work. The problem is, I'm having a hard time figuring out how it works ex...
Heliozoan asked 11/3, 2013 at 19:42

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I am trying to find the fastest way to check whether a given number is prime or not (in Java). Below are several primality testing methods I came up with. Is there any better way than the second im...
Club asked 5/3, 2010 at 10:12

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Here's my code: def factorize(n): sieve = [True] * (n + 1) for x in range(2, int(len(sieve) ** 0.5) + 1): if sieve[x]: for i in range(x + x, len(sieve), x): sieve[i] = False lowerPrimes = ...

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I'm trying to print every prime number under 2**32. Right now I'm using a bool vector to build a sieve and then print out the primes after making the sieve. It takes 4 minutes just to print out the...
Gould asked 21/9, 2013 at 1:49

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I wanted to do some comparison between Python and Raku while also learning Raku. Originally I wanted a much bigger script, but since the difference is already huge, I'll ask for guidance now. I tri...
Impermissible asked 19/9, 2023 at 23:18

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I want to create a program in C# 2005 which calculates prime factors of a given input. i want to use the basic and simplest things, no need to create a method for it nor array things etc. just simp...
Wurth asked 3/5, 2011 at 16:58

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Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong with this code? It is just printing 'count' anyway. I just want a very simple prime generator (nothing fancy). import math def main(): count = ...
Treulich asked 19/2, 2009 at 21:22

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I wrote the following program based on the logic that a prime number is only divisible by 1 and itself. So I just go through the process of dividing it to all numbers that are greater than one and ...
Chanterelle asked 25/4, 2014 at 0:18

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Naturally, for bool isprime(number) there would be a data structure I could query. I define the best algorithm, to be the algorithm that produces a data structure with lowest memory consumption for...
Humor asked 26/11, 2009 at 3:30

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The documentation for Raku's is-prime function says the following: Returns True if this Int is known to be a prime, or is likely to be a prime based on a probabilistic Miller-Rabin test. Returns F...
Passer asked 13/3, 2023 at 16:33

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How would one implement a list of prime numbers in Haskell so that they could be retrieved lazily? I am new to Haskell, and would like to learn about practical uses of the lazy evaluation function...
Yoshida asked 29/8, 2010 at 20:40

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I have been trying to write Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm in JavaScript. Basically I just literally followed the steps below: Create a list of consecutive integers from 2 to (n-1) Let first pri...
Whorehouse asked 18/3, 2013 at 7:0

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I was trying to find the prime factors of a number, recorded below as 'integer' using a for loop in javascript. I can't seem to get it working and I'm not sure whether it's my JavaScript or my calc...
Louls asked 6/10, 2016 at 14:45

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I was trying to write a simple prime number program in Java 8. Below is the program. I wanted to reduce the code in isPrime() as well. Is there something that filters the elements from 2 to n/2, an...
Clink asked 5/6, 2017 at 10:28

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Since I'm starting to get the hang of Python, I'm starting to test my newly acquired Python skills on some problems on projecteuler.net. Anyways, at some point, I ended up making a function for ge...
Ullund asked 6/12, 2012 at 16:18

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