Problem 7
28 December 2001
By listing the first six prime numbers :
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6^(th) prime is 13.
What is the 10001^(st) prime number?
In[1]:= Prime[6]
Out[1]= 13
In[2]:= Prime[10001]
Out[2]= 104743
I think the point of these earlier ones is that you need to be able to easily come up with building blocks for later problems. If that's the case, I won't feel robbed of having written an algorithm to do this.
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