Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> > > On Nov 7, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Ray Holt wrote:
> >
> > >       I am taking the MIT online course Introduction to Computer
> > > Science and       Programming. I have a assignment to write a
> > > program to compute and print       the 1000th. prime number. Can
> > > someone give me some leads on the correct       code? Thanks,
> > > Ray
>
> Tongue in cheek solution:
>
> import urllib2
>
> url = 'http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/10000.txt'
> primes = []
> for line in urllib2.urlopen(url).read().splitlines():
>     values = line.split()
>     if len(values) == 10:
>         primes.extend(values)
> print primes[1000-1]

  reminds me of a variation of an old joke:  using nothing but this
barometer, determine the height of that building.

  answer:  go to the building manager and say, "i'll give you this
really neat barometer if you tell me how tall this building is."

rday
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