""" Project Euler Problem 7: https://projecteuler.net/problem=7 10001st prime By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13. What is the 10001st prime number? References: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number """ from math import sqrt 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 (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(sqrt(number) + 1), 6): if number % i == 0 or number % (i + 2) == 0: return False return True def solution(nth: int = 10001) -> int: """ Returns the n-th prime number. >>> solution(6) 13 >>> solution(1) 2 >>> solution(3) 5 >>> solution(20) 71 >>> solution(50) 229 >>> solution(100) 541 """ count = 0 number = 1 while count != nth and number < 3: number += 1 if is_prime(number): count += 1 while count != nth: number += 2 if is_prime(number): count += 1 return number if __name__ == "__main__": print(f"{solution() = }")