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In this post, we will look at a C program to find whether a given number is a prime number or not.
Prime Number: A number, which is divisible by only 1 and itself.
Eg.
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and so on are prime numbers.
To find whether a number(let’s say “num”) is prime or not, we need to check the remainder when we divide the given number with numbers from 2 to num/2.
This can be achieved using Modulus operator(“%”) in C. This operator gives the remainder of the division expression.
Eg.
10 % 3 = 1
11 % 3 = 2
12 % 3 = 0
Here is the C program:
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/* C program to find if the given number is a prime number */ #include<stdio.h> int main() { int num, i; int isPrime = 1; printf("Enter a number: "); scanf("%d", &num); for(i = 2; i <= num/2; i++) { if(num % i == 0) { isPrime = 0; break; } } if(isPrime == 1) { printf("%d is a prime number.", num); } else { printf("%d is not a prime number.", num); } return 0; } |
Output:
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