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Hany Freedom
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I want to make Pl/SQL program using WHILE LOOP , which will accept integer from 1 to 50 and generate the prime numbers as shown in the following output :-

The prime numbers from 1 to 50 are as follows :
1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47

How suppose that's done ?!

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319433 is a reply to message #319432] Sun, 11 May 2008 03:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
vamsi kasina
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What you have tried till now?
Paste your code.

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319448 is a reply to message #319432] Sun, 11 May 2008 06:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/primenumbers/primenumbers.htm

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319454 is a reply to message #319448] Sun, 11 May 2008 09:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hany Freedom
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those links are define what Prime numbers means ..... but what I need is in my first post.

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319455 is a reply to message #319432] Sun, 11 May 2008 09:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Are you unwilling or incapable of using GOOGLE to search for "Prime number generator"?

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319459 is a reply to message #319454] Sun, 11 May 2008 10:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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The second link gives several algorithms and even code to generate prime numbers... but you are too lazy to read it.

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[Updated on: Sun, 11 May 2008 10:06]

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319460 is a reply to message #319432] Sun, 11 May 2008 11:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hany Freedom
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for anacedent :-
I searched at Google about what i need and didn't find it .
for Michel Cadot:-
I'm not lazy , but your second link don't related by any kind to oracle ...... look to it by your self.

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319463 is a reply to message #319460] Sun, 11 May 2008 11:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Barbara Boehmer
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You should not expect to find all of the answers to your homework assignments just by searching or asking or expect to learn anything that way. This is a simple task that could be done in various ways and apparently you have been assigned to use a specific method (while loop). If you know what a while loop is (if not, then search the documentation) and you know what a prime number is, then this should be an easy assignment. Use a variable for your number with a starting value of one and create your while loop such that it loops while that variable is less than your maximum number incrementing the variable by 1 after the rest of the processing in the loop. Within the loop, check whether the number is a prime number and output it if it is and don't if it isn't. To check whether it is a prime number, check whether it is divisible by any numbers other than 1 or itself. You may want to use a nested loop to do this.

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319466 is a reply to message #319460] Sun, 11 May 2008 12:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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Quote:
your second link don't related by any kind to oracle

Good grief! The code is in C, PL/SQL (in its most basic form) is close to C, you just have to change the keywords.

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319512 is a reply to message #319432] Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
flyboy
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Even the first link contains reference to Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. Unfortunately, it is described in words and illustrated with pseudocode, no PL/SQL too.
But it shall not be difficult for the original poster to rewrite-it to PL/SQL.

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319646 is a reply to message #319432] Mon, 12 May 2008 08:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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>But it shall not be difficult for the original poster to rewrite-it to PL/SQL.
Nothing is impossible for the person who does not have to do it.

You can lead some folks to knowledge, but you can't make them think!

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Re: how can i catch prime numbers with While Loop ? [message #319692 is a reply to message #319460] Mon, 12 May 2008 12:20 Go to previous message
Barbara Boehmer
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It should only take a few lines of code to do this.

SCOTT@orcl_11g> SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
SCOTT@orcl_11g> DECLARE
  2    ...;
  3    ...;
  4  BEGIN
  5    WHILE ... LOOP
  6  	 ...;
  7  	 WHILE ... LOOP
  8  	   IF ... THEN ...;
  9  	   ELSIF ... THEN ...;
 10  	   END IF;
 11  	   IF ... THEN ...;
 12  	   END IF;
 13  	   ...;
 14  	 END LOOP;
 15  	 ...;
 16    END LOOP;
 17    ...;
 18  END;
 19  /
1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SCOTT@orcl_11g>

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