- Write a C program to print all prime numbers between 1 to N using for loop.
- Wap in C to print prime numbers between 1 to 100.
Required Knowledge
- C printf and scanf functions
- For loop in C
- C program to check prime number
A Prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that is only divisible by either 1 or itself. Here is the list of first few prime numbers
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23….
Algorithm to check whether a number is prime number or not
Let, N be a positive number.
- For every number i, between 2 to N/2(2<= i <= N/2) check whether i divides N completely(check If i is a factor of N).
- if (N % i == 0), then N cannot be a Prime number.
- If none of the number between 2 to N/2 divides N completely then N is a prime number.
C program to print sum of all prime numbers between 1 to N
#include <stdio.h> int main() { int counter, N, i, isPrime, primeFactorSum = 0; /* * Take a number as input from user */ printf("Enter a Number\n"); scanf("%d", &N); /* Check for every number between 1 to N, whether it is prime number or not */ for(counter = 2; counter <= N; counter++) { isPrime = 1; for(i = 2; i <=(counter/2); ++i) { if(counter%i==0) { isPrime = 0; break; } } if(isPrime==1) primeFactorSum += counter; } printf("Sum of Prime Numbers between 1 to %d : %d", N,primeFactorSum); return 0; }
Output
Enter a Number 15 List of Prime Factors of 15 3 5
Enter a Number 50 List of Prime Factors of 50 2 5