Hi everyone. I've put together the below code to find the 1000th prime number. One question I have, is it possible to change this code so that I can go on forever without breaks instead of sticking the arbitrarily large number in there?
edit: Put the increment of the prime count in the right place.

prime_count = int(0)

for testing_number in range(2, 100000000):
for checking_number in range(2, testing_number):
if testing_number % checking_number == 0:
break
else:
prime_count += 1
if prime_count 999:
print('1000th prime: ',testing_number)
break

print("Prime count:",prime_count)

Question

Hi everyone. I've put together the below code to find the 1000th prime number. One question I have, is it possible to change this code so that I can go on forever without breaks instead of sticking the arbitrarily large number in there?
edit: Put the increment of the prime count in the right place.

prime_count = int(0)

for testing_number in range(2, 100000000):
    for checking_number in range(2, testing_number):
        if testing_number % checking_number == 0:
            break
    else:
        prime_count += 1
        if prime_count > 999:
            print('1000th prime: ',testing_number)
            break

print("Prime count:",prime_count)

rsmith6559 · Answer

Have you considered making a list of the primes, and using a while loop?

doc.brown · Answer

Which language?