[Tutor] making lists of prime numbers

[Alan Gauld]

On 15/09/11 03:01, c smith wrote:

> am I passing arguments from the command line correctly?

Yes, although not converting to an int.

> this seems to count by twos (going through both 'if statements' maybe?)
> I thought the 'break' would send control back to the 'while'
> basically, is there an obvious problem here or is it just completely wrong?

It might work once you iron out the bugs but it's horribly inefficient. 
It will take a very long time to run for large numbers. Did you try 
searching for prime number algorithms? There are several that will be 
much faster than this.

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Alan G
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