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Thursday, 15 August 2019

C program to find the largest prime number below 5000, test a prime number


/*to find the largest  prime number below 5000*/
#include<stdio.h>
#include<math.h>
void
main()
{
                int n,i,remainder,d,c=0;
                for(n=5000;n>=3;n--)
                {
                                d=sqrt(n);
   for(i=2;i<d;i++)
   {
                   remainder=n%i;
                   if(remainder==0)

                                   goto label;
                   }
                   if(n>c)
                                   c=n;
   }
label:;
                }
                printf("the largest prime number %d is\n",c);
}
Result:
the largest prime number 4999 is
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