> I am trying to write a program that will figure out if a number is prime
> or not. Currently this is the code that I have:
>
> import math
>
> def main():
>
> number=input("Please enter a positive whole number greater than 2: ")
> for value in range(2, number-math.sqrt):
> if number % value == 0:
> print number, "is not prime"
> exit
> print number, "is prime"
>
> main()
I am a beginner so, I hope what I give, makes sense. In it's simplest
form what is wrong with :-
n = input("Enter a number")
if n % 2 != 0 and n % 3 != 0:
print n, " Is a prime number"
Comments please.
Norman
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