Project euler (in case you don't know: <a href="http://projecteuler.net">projecteuler.net</a>)<br><br>I'm trying to do the third one and here's my current code:<br><br> 1 def checkPrime (x):<br> 2 factors=2;<br>
3 while factors<=x:<br> 4 if x==factors:<br> 5 return True;<br> 6 elif x%factors==0:<br> 7 return False;<br> 8 elif x%factors!=0:<br> 9 factors=factors+1;<br>
10<br> 11 factorl=[];<br> 12 factors=600851475142;<br> 13<br> 14 while factors != 1:<br> 15 if 600851475143%factors==0:<br> 16 if checkPrime(factors)==True:<br> 17 print factors;<br> 18 else:<br>
19 factors=factors-1;<br> 20<br> 21 else:<br> 22 factors=factors-1;<br> 23<br><br>And it just gets frozen when I run it. I put a <br><br>print "Loop completed"<br><br>in one of the loops and it showed up just fine. So, there are two possibilities:<br>
1. Its looping in the trillions and taking a while<br>2. I have a forever loop somewhere<br>