Tag: project euler
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Project Euler #7
Problem 7 asks: “What is the 10,001st prime number?” I spent a lot of time trying to work out a way to determine a range of numbers small enough to yeild any nth prime number, and started to write up the paragraphs that follow. What I found was that primes are tricky and will betray…
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Project Euler #5
Problem 5 asks: “What is the smallest number divisible by each of the numbers 1 to 20?” Instead of 20, we will consider the question for any natural number. This is a great question as it gets you to start thinking about number theory! Specifically, how numbers are composed as the products of primes. As…
Chris Bowden 