Little novice program written in Python

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:
>  I'm just getting my feet wet on Python and, just for starters, I'm coding some 
>  elementary number theory algorithms (yes, I know that most of them are already 
>  implemented as modules, but this is an exercise in learning the
>  language idioms).

When you are up to speed in python I suggest you check out gmpy for
number theory algorithms.

Eg :-

    import gmpy
    p = 2
    while 1:
        print p
        p = gmpy.next_prime(p)

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick