Thread: How many prime numbers are there in this sequence

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    How many prime numbers are there in this sequence

    I'm writing a program to calculate the number of prime numbers in a sequence. There's a variable called num that is given and then the program must calculate how many prime numbers there are from 2 (the smallest prime number) to num.
    It should be something like that:

    _________________________________________________

    Enter a number greater than 1: 7
    There are 4 prime numbers between 2 and 7.
    __________________________________________________ _______________


    This is because 2,3,5 and 7 are prime numbers, a total of 4 numbers.
    The code below shows the variable num which is equal to 7, the main function calls isPrime (which says if a number is prime or not), then the way I thought about was using a for loop from 2 to num and check if each i is prime or not.

    I don't know how to proceed from that. Please, could someone help?
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)][code]
    #[COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]include[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-variable)]<stdio.h>[/COLOR]
    [/COLOR]
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]#[COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]include[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-variable)]<math.h>[/COLOR][/COLOR]

    [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]int[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-literal)]isPrime[/COLOR]([COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]int[/COLOR] num) {
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]int[/COLOR] i;
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]for[/COLOR] (i=[COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]2[/COLOR]; i<=[COLOR=var(--highlight-literal)]sqrt[/COLOR](num); i++) {
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]if[/COLOR] (num%i == [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]0[/COLOR]) {
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]return[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]0[/COLOR];
    }
    }
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]return[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]1[/COLOR];
    }


    [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]int[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-literal)]main[/COLOR](){

    [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]int[/COLOR] i, num, numofprimes;

    num=[COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]7[/COLOR];

    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]for[/COLOR] (i=[COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]2[/COLOR];i<=num;i++){
    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]if[/COLOR] (isPrime(i)){

    }

    [COLOR=var(--highlight-literal)]printf[/COLOR]([COLOR=var(--highlight-variable)]"%d"[/COLOR], numofprimes);
    }

    [COLOR=var(--highlight-keyword)]return[/COLOR] [COLOR=var(--highlight-namespace)]0[/COLOR];
    }[code/]


    If someone could help I would be glad.
    Last edited by guiromero; 11-19-2021 at 05:20 AM.

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    Maybe you could post your code WITHOUT all that silly markup.
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