<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:08 PM, yd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ydmt923@gmail.com">ydmt923@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Having a problem finding the first 1000 prime numbers, here is my code:-<br><br>print(2)<br>n =3<br>counter =1<br>while counter <=1000:<br> for x in range(3,int((n**0.5)),2):<br> if n%x != 0:<br> print(n)<br>
n+=1<br> counter+=1<br> else:<br> n+=1<br> <br>The problem is, it prints 2 and then does nothing, yet if i try and close, it says program is still running do you want to kill it, is there a way to do this with lists, i know python has a prime function but i am not going to use it because i want to solve this problem without 'cheating'.Thanks.<br>
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<br></blockquote><div>What 'problem' are you trying to solve?<br>In general, anytime you can use a premade solution, you are at an advantage, not cheating.<br>That's one of the marks of a truly good programmer - being able to reuse as much code as possible.<br>
Unless it's a homework problem and he said "don't use the prime function" because in this case, your goal is to learn how to write a prime function, not to calculate primes.<br>I.E. it's the doing, not the task. And if that's the case, please let us know that it's homework. We will still help you, we just follow certain guidelines<br>
when providing homework assistance so as not to "give it away" and still allow you to reason / come up with the solution on your own, as your teacher probably intended.<br><br>-Luke<br></div></div><br>