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Given a positive integer, check if the number is prime or not. A prime is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. Examples of first few prime numbers are {2, 3, 5,

Examples:

Input:  n = 11
Output: true

Input:  n = 15
Output: false

Input:  n = 1
Output: false

School Method :




# A school method based Python3 
# program to check if a number
# is prime
  
def isPrime(n):
  
    # Corner case
    if n <= 1:
        return False
  
    # Check from 2 to n-1
    for i in range(2, n):
        if n % i == 0:
            return False;
  
    return True
  
# Driver Program to test above function
print("true") if isPrime(11) else print("false")
print("true") if isPrime(14) else print("false")
  
# This code is contributed by Smitha Dinesh Semwal


Output:

true
false

Time complexity of this solution is O(n)



Optimized School Method :




# A optimized school method based  
# Python3 program to check 
# if a number is prime 
    
    
def isPrime(n) : 
    # Corner cases 
    if (n <= 1) : 
        return False
    if (n <= 3) : 
        return True
    
    # This is checked so that we can skip  
    # middle five numbers in below loop 
    if (n % 2 == 0 or n % 3 == 0) : 
        return False
    
    i = 5
    while(i * i <= n) : 
        if (n % i == 0 or n % (i + 2) == 0) : 
            return False
        i = i + 6
    
    return True
    
    
# Driver Program  
    
if(isPrime(11)) : 
    print(" true"
else
    print(" false"
        
if(isPrime(15)) : 
    print(" true"
else :  
    print(" false"
        
        
# This code is contributed  
# by Nikita Tiwari. 


Output:

true
false

Please refer complete article on Primality Test | Set 1 (Introduction and School Method) for more details!



Last Updated : 30 Nov, 2018
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