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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