Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Wayne Brehaut
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:34:47 +0100, Andre Engels wrote: >On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Mensanator wrote: > >>> Tongue in cheek solution: >>> >>> import urllib2 >>> >>> url = 'http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/1.txt' >>> primes = [] >>> for line in urllib2.urlopen(url).read().splitlines(): >

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Andre Engels
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Mensanator wrote: >> Tongue in cheek solution: >> >> import urllib2 >> >> url = 'http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/1.txt' >> primes = [] >> for line in urllib2.urlopen(url).read().splitlines(): >>     values = line.split() >>     if len(values) == 10: >>      

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread John Posner
Robert P. J. Day said: the ubiquitous sieve of eratosthenes requires you to pre-specify your maximum value, after which -- once the sieve completes -- all you know is that you have all of the prime numbers up to n. whether you'll have 1000 of them isn't clear, which means that you might have t

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Mensanator
On Nov 7, 11:23 am, 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 100

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Xavier Ho
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Ray Holt wrote: > 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? > Ray, if you really want an answer out of this list, you'll have to at least show us what efforts you'v

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 n

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> > 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 > > c

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, sstein...@gmail.com 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 som

Re: Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

2009-11-07 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
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 Copying co