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5 code results in TheAlgorithms/Python or view all results on GitHub

13 import math
14
15
16 def isprime(num: int) -> bool:
17 """
18 Returns boolean representing primality of given number num.
19
20 >>> isprime(2)
21 True
22 >>> isprime(3)
23 True
24 >>> isprime(27)
25 False
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9 What is the 10001st prime number?
10
11 References:
12 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
13 """
14
15
16 def isprime(number: int) -> bool:
17 """
18 Determines whether the given number is prime or not
19
20 >>> isprime(2)
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33 count of current primes.
34
35 """
36 from math import isqrt
37
38
39 def isprime(number: int) -> int:
40 """
41 returns whether the given number is prime or not
42 >>> isprime(1)
43 0
44 >>> isprime(17)
45 1
46 >>> isprime(10000)
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6 This Python library contains some useful functions to deal with
7 prime numbers and whole numbers.
8
9 Overview:
10
11 isPrime(number)
33 fib (n) // calculate the n-th fibonacci term.
34
35 -----
36
37 goldbach(number) // Goldbach's assumption
38
39 """
40
41 from math import sqrt
42
43
44 def isPrime(number):
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22 else:
23 i = i + 1
24 v = (v ** 2) % num
25 return True
26
27
28 def isPrime(num: int) -> bool:
29 if num < 2:
30 return False
214 while True:
215 num = random.randrange(2 ** (keysize - 1), 2 ** (keysize))
216 if isPrime(num):
Python
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