Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Help on finding the 1000th prime

You'r trying naive algorithm. Finding prime is one of basic elements of maths and programming. You may look at sieve of eratosthenesand sieve of atkin On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:35 AM, wrote: > > > Ke

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Help on finding the 1000th prime

Kent Johnson wrote on 11/16/2009 04:00:02 PM: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Ray Holt > Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM > Subject: RE: [Tutor] Help on finding the 1000th prime > To: Kent Johnson > > > I hit the send button before I was ready. Here is the code that doesn'

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Help on finding the 1000th prime

Also watch things like letter case on stuff like 'Print' and 'While', they should instead be 'print' and 'while', (all lowercase). -Modulok- On 11/16/09, bob gailer wrote: > >> Here is the code that doesn't work. >> > > Thanks for posting the code. What "doesn't work" mean? > error messages? > u

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Help on finding the 1000th prime

Here is the code that doesn't work. Thanks for posting the code. What "doesn't work" mean? error messages? unexpected results? or what? There are several problems in your code. - The candidates you are testing. Walk thru the program and list a few of them and see if you can determine that

[Tutor] Fwd: Help on finding the 1000th prime

-- Forwarded message -- From: Ray Holt Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM Subject: RE: [Tutor] Help on finding the 1000th prime To: Kent Johnson I hit the send button before I was ready. Here is the code that doesn't work. primeCount = 0 primeCandidate = 2 While primeCount <= 10

[Tutor] Fwd: Help on finding the 1000th prime

Please use reply all to reply to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: Ray Holt Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM Subject: RE: [Tutor] Help on finding the 1000th prime To: Kent Johnson Basically I can't figure out how to loop through the possible candidates. I am using versi