Question

Hi I have a question about ps1 I believe I have a good code to test for prime # , how do I write a place to put results and limit results to 1000 ?

Answer 1

Can you be a little bit more specific?
what language are you using and what exactly do you want?

Answer 2

with Python I a, trying to find the 1000th prime , my code will produce primes within a range of numbers I specify , I want to be able to only printr the 1000th result .

Answer 3

I think you cannot jump to the 1000th number straightly,
what you can do is, create a counter, and each time you find a prime number instead of printing it, increase that counter by 1, and check if that counter is = 1000 then only print the number.

Answer 4

ok that is what I am looking to do , where , and how do I add a counter ?

Answer 5

we cant say that without looking at the code. but the basic idea is that u want an outer loop that iterates everytime u find a prime and goes up to 1000th times

Answer 6

counter = 0
number =1
while(true)
{
if( number is prime)
{counter++}
if(counter=1000)
{
print number
break the loop
}

number++
}
here s simple pseudo-code
you can create a boolean function for checking if the number is prime.

Answer 7

Hey you know there is a seperate study group for MIT course 6.00 Introduction to Python http://openstudy.com/groups/mit%206.0%20intro%20computer%20science%20(ocw)