On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

>  > > On Nov 7, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Ray Holt wrote:
>  >
>  > > � � � I am taking the MIT online course Introduction to Computer
>  > > Science and � � � Programming. I have a assignment to write a
>  > > program to compute and print � � � the 1000th. prime number. Can
>  > > someone give me some leads on the correct � � � 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]

  reminds me of a variation of an old joke:  using nothing but this
barometer, determine the height of that building.

  answer:  go to the building manager and say, "i'll give you this
really neat barometer if you tell me how tall this building is."

rday
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