Re: Newbie question - calculating prime numbers

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Angel
Matty Sarro wrote: Hey Dave, Thank you for the heads up. I actually bashed my head against the desk a few times and eventually I realized what I was doing wrong. Here's my final code (slightly optimized) that's verified and working. Out of curiousity, what other optimizations could I throw at it

Re: Newbie question - calculating prime numbers

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Otten
Matty Sarro wrote: > Hey Dave, > Thank you for the heads up. I actually bashed my head against the desk a > few times and eventually I realized what I was doing wrong. Here's my > final code (slightly optimized) that's verified and working. Out of > curiousity, what other optimizations could I thr

Re: Newbie question - calculating prime numbers

2010-08-10 Thread Ian
On 10/08/2010 12:57, Matty Sarro wrote: Hey Everyone, I'm currently trying to work through MIT's opencourseware and am using python. The second assignment they offer is to determine the 1000th prime number. Below is the code I am using: #Assignment 1a #Determine the 1000th prime number candid

Re: Newbie question - calculating prime numbers

2010-08-10 Thread Matty Sarro
Hey Dave, Thank you for the heads up. I actually bashed my head against the desk a few times and eventually I realized what I was doing wrong. Here's my final code (slightly optimized) that's verified and working. Out of curiousity, what other optimizations could I throw at it (without diving too d

Re: Newbie question - calculating prime numbers

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Angel
Matty Sarro wrote: Hey Everyone, I'm currently trying to work through MIT's opencourseware and am using python. The second assignment they offer is to determine the 1000th prime number. Below is the code I am using: #Assignment 1a #Determine the 1000th prime number candidate=3 #Already know that