kinuthia muchane wrote:
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:09 -0400, "Simón A. Ruiz" wrote:
When i is 3, then we'll only check (2 % 3 == 0) which is False, so the
loop ends unbroken and runs the else clause letting us know that 3 is
indeed a prime number.
Shouldn't we be checking for (3%2 == 0) instead
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:09 -0400, "Simón A. Ruiz" wrote:
> kinuthia muchane wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:08 -0400, "Simón A. Ruiz" wrote:
> >> For each of those numbers, it checks to see if any number between 2 and
> >> i is divisible into i. If it finds anything, we know it's not a prime
kinuthia muchane wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:08 -0400, "Simón A. Ruiz" wrote:
For each of those numbers, it checks to see if any number between 2 and
i is divisible into i. If it finds anything, we know it's not a prime,
and so it breaks out of that second loop without completing it, which
"kinuthia muchane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
This has served to confuse me more. Would someone please kindly
explain
how all this fits into the code below which searches (and finds!)
for
prime numbers...
It doesn't find prime numbers very well.
It only finds the primes *below* the one enter
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:08 -0400, "Simón A. Ruiz" wrote:
> I'll try my hand at this:
>
> The outside for loop is looking through every number up to the variable
> "number".
No quarrel here.
>
> For each of those numbers, it checks to see if any number between 2 and
> i is divisible into i. If
I'll try my hand at this:
The outside for loop is looking through every number up to the variable
"number".
For each of those numbers, it checks to see if any number between 2 and
i is divisible into i. If it finds anything, we know it's not a prime,
and so it breaks out of that second loop
Hi,
I learnt that a loop can have an else clause. And that this clause
executes when the loop TERMINATES. In a while loop when the condition
becomes false, and in a for loop when a sequence is exhausted. When I
write the following code it seems to work:
for n in [1,2,3,4,5]:
print 'we are
