[Greenbuilding] Pithy python

[Kathy Cochran]

Does that mean that something either fabulous or catastrophic is going to
happen this year?  (But I confess, being a "numbers nurd", that is rather
interesting.)

Kathy

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Subject: [Greenbuilding] Pithy python

Nathan Hurst writes:

>nick pine wrote:

>> 2011 is the sum of 11 consecutive primes.

python
>>> primes = [2]
>>> for i in range(2, 2011):
...   if all((i % x) for x in primes):
...     primes.append(i)
... 
>>> firstprime = bisect.bisect_left([sum(primes[i:i+11]) for i in
range(len(primes))], 2011)
>>> print firstprime
36
>>> sum( primes[36:36+11])
2011
>>> primes[36:36+11]
[157, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, 211]

njh

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