--ProjectEuler/lua/Problem7.lua --Matthew Ellison -- Created: 02-05-19 --Modified: 06-19-20 --What is the 10001th prime number? --All of my requires, unless otherwise listed, can be found at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/luaClasses --[[ Copyright (C) 2020 Matthew Ellison This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . ]] require "Stopwatch" require "Algorithms" local timer = Stopwatch:create(); timer:start(); NUM_PRIMES = 10001; --The number of the prime number desired --Get the correct number of primes local primes = getNumPrimes(NUM_PRIMES); timer:stop(); --Print the results print("The " .. NUM_PRIMES .. "th prime number is " .. primes[NUM_PRIMES]); print("It took " .. timer:getMilliseconds() .. " milliseconds to run this algorithm"); --[[Results: The 10001th prime number is 104743 It took 127.505 milliseconds to run this algorithm ]]