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?
How to find next prime number?
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3This is Project Euler problem 7: http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=7 – 2010-10-29
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0Yes! and I would like to know how to solve this. – 2010-10-29
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8Just compute the first 10001 primes... – 2010-10-29
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1You might want to look at the prime counting function. – 2010-10-29