""" Project Euler Problem 10: https://projecteuler.net/problem=10 Summation of primes The sum of the primes below 10 is 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17. Find the sum of all the primes below two million. References: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number """ import math from collections.abc import Iterator from itertools import takewhile def is_prime(number: int) -> bool: """Checks to see if a number is a prime in O(sqrt(n)). A number is prime if it has exactly two factors: 1 and itself. Returns boolean representing primality of given number num (i.e., if the result is true, then the number is indeed prime else it is not). >>> is_prime(2) True >>> is_prime(3) True >>> is_prime(27) False >>> is_prime(2999) True >>> is_prime(0) False >>> is_prime(1) False """ if 1 < number < 4: # 2 and 3 are primes return True elif number < 2 or number % 2 == 0 or number % 3 == 0: # Negatives, 0, 1, all even numbers, all multiples of 3 are not primes return False # All primes number are in format of 6k +/- 1 for i in range(5, int(math.sqrt(number) + 1), 6): if number % i == 0 or number % (i + 2) == 0: return False return True def prime_generator() -> Iterator[int]: """ Generate a list sequence of prime numbers """ num = 2 while True: if is_prime(num): yield num num += 1 def solution(n: int = 2000000) -> int: """ Returns the sum of all the primes below n. >>> solution(1000) 76127 >>> solution(5000) 1548136 >>> solution(10000) 5736396 >>> solution(7) 10 """ return sum(takewhile(lambda x: x < n, prime_generator())) if __name__ == "__main__": print(f"{solution() = }")