Problem 241. Project Euler: Problem 7, Nth prime

Created by Doug Hull

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John D'Errico on 22 Feb 2018

Aw drat. I was going to submit the n'th prime problem until I saw this.

John D'Errico on 22 Feb 2018

Sadly, I see there are too few test cases, and the problem is too easy to cook.

Jiawei Gong on 7 Apr 2020

why 'nthprime' not allowed?

Sachin Mysore on 15 Mar 2022

There's a really easy way to cheese this problem if you find it. It happens to lie in the comment John D'Errico made about there being too few test cases. I'd encourage you to do the problem properly without such a cheese

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Roche de Guzman on 8 Dec 2018

Another great problem!

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yurenchu on 2 May 2017

This solution doesn't use any of the built-in MATLAB functions primes() or isprime(). It works for all integers N > 0, and requires only (N^0.75) iterations.

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Ramy Mohamed on 31 Jul 2013

I do not know how the size are computed. Would someone please tell me?. Thanks in advance.

David Verrelli on 12 Mar 2018

See https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/about/cody/#solve_problems for basic concept. The best way to figure out the details is from experience — just try different alternatives.

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