# Programmer: Sriram Pemmaraju # Date: Jan 30th, 2012 # This program reads a positive integer, greater than 1 and # determines whether this integer is a prime or not. # Version 1 import time # the time module is need for functions that help time our code # Input n = int(raw_input("Please type a positive integer, greater than 1: ")) factor = 2 # initial value of possible factor isPrime = True # variable to remember if n is a prime or not start = time.time() # remembers the time at which the loop started # loop to generate and test all possible factors while factor < n: # test if n is evenly divisible by factor if (n % factor == 0): isPrime = False break factor = factor + 1 end = time.time() # remembers the time at which the loop ended elapsedTime = end - start # Output if isPrime: print n, " is a prime." else: print n, " is a composite." print "The while-loop took ", elapsedTime, "seconds."