Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number
by Raymond Hettinger other posts by this author
Nov 7 2009 9:26AM messages near this date
Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number
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Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number
> > On Nov 7, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Ray Holt wrote:
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> > Â Â Â I am taking the MIT online course Introduction to Computer Science and
> > Â Â Â Programming. I have a assignment to write a program to compute and print
> > Â Â Â the 1000th. prime number. Can someone give me some leads on the correct
> > Â Â Â code? Thanks, Ray
Tongue in cheek solution:
import urllib2
url = 'http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/10000.txt'
primes = []
for line in urllib2.urlopen(url).read().splitlines():
values = line.split()
if len(values) == 10:
primes.extend(values)
print primes[1000-1]
Raymond
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