On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 11:12:43 AM UTC-5, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/03/2018 09:26 AM, Musatov wrote: > > I don't even know where to begin! (I'm reading the Dummies book) > > If you have no experience in computer programming, it's going to be a > steep learning curve. > > But your first step is to learn Python and how to write programs in it. > That book and others will help with that. You'll have to write lots of > simple programs unrelated to primes along the way that help you > understand programming concepts. > > If you already have experience in other languages, the task will be easier. > > Computer programming is quite natural to some (small children seem to > get it much easier than us adults), but I've seen others struggle to > grasp the abstract concepts for years. > > Once you've grasped basic Python programming, you can return top the > original problem at hand. Start by identifying the process or algorithm > that would find these primes. In other words, how would you do it on pen > and paper? Computer programs are not magic. They are only expressions > of human thinking. Often some very smart mathematicians have come up > with powerful algorithms (a step-by-step process) to do these things, > and your job as a programmer is to turn this mathematical process into a > computer program using things like loops and Boolean logic. How would > you find these primes using your pen, paper, and calculator?
Literally, how I found them was taking a list of primes and checking if the calculations with the lesser primes resulted in numbers also further along on the list. Another way I guess would be to do the calculations then check if the number is prime. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
