hello, i have another problem i feel that i have to be missing something.. Basically, i've written a recursive function to find all the prime up to a number (lim).. here is the function:
The function basically takes in a list of all the prime number found, it takes the next number to be tested for (next) and the limit it will go up to. It divide next by the list of previous prime numbers if next is not bigger than lim, count up all the times where it's not evenly divdided, if the result is equal the length of prime number, then we have another prime number, lather rinse and repeat :) def findPrime(seed, next, lim): print("seed: " + str(seed) + " next: " + str(next) + " lim: " + str(lim)) print(seed) if(next >= lim): print(seed) return seed else: count = 0; for num in seed: modu = math.modf(float(next)/float(num)); if(modu[0] > 0): count += 1 if(count == len(seed)): seed.append(next) findPrime(seed, next+2, lim) else: findPrime(seed, next+2, lim) As you can probably see, i've printed the value of seed up until the point where i'm returning the seed, however, the function still returns None.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list