Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Robert P. J. Day, 15.11.2009 15:44: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, mrholtsr wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet on

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Carsten Haese
Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert P. J. Day, 15.11.2009 15:44: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, mrholtsr wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Himanshu
2009/11/15 mrholtsr mrhol...@gmail.com: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet on Introduction to Computer Science and

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Otten
mrholtsr wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet on Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. Thanks, Ray When

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert P. J. Day, 15.11.2009 15:44: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, mrholtsr wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert P. J. Day, 15.11.2009 15:44: Now, all that's left to do is write a prime number generator (a random number generator will do, too, but writing a good one isn't easy), run it repeatedly in

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Edward A. Falk
In article aecf2132-05a9-4144-81a8-952bb435e...@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, mrholtsr mrhol...@gmail.com wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-17 Thread Terry Reedy
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, mrholtsr wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet on Introduction to Computer Science and

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-16 Thread mrholtsr
On Nov 15, 10:02 am, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: mrholtsr schrieb: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-16 Thread sturlamolden
On 15 Nov, 15:30, mrholtsr mrhol...@gmail.com wrote: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet on Introduction to Computer Science

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

2009-11-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mrholtsr schrieb: I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet on Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. Thanks, Ray Do you