Wednesday, February 27, 2008

2008 Scripting Games - Advanced Event 6

 

Event 6: Prime Time

 

function Test-Prime ($num){ 

  $prime = new-object psobject
  add-member -inp $prime noteproperty Number $null
  add-member -inp $prime noteproperty IsPrime $true

  $prime.Number=$num
  
  if($num -eq 2) {
    $prime.IsPrime=$true
  } else {
    foreach ($i in 2..([math]::Sqrt($num))) {
      if ($num % $i -eq 0) {$prime.IsPrime=$false }
    }
  }
  
  $prime  
}
  
1..200 | foreach {Test-Prime $_} | Where {$_.IsPrime} | select number | ft -auto
 

Number
------
     2
     3
     5
     7
    11
    13
    17
    19
    23
    29
    31
    37
    41
    43
    47
    53
    59
    61
    67
    71
    73
    79
    83
    89
    97
   101
   103
   107
   109
   113
   127
   131
   137
   139
   149
   151
   157
   163
   167
   173
   179
   181
   191
   193
   197
   199

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Shay,

I had a pretty similar solution, using [Math]::Sqrt().

I did some calcs with measure-command and found some interesting results. The call into .NET [math] actually took longer than going all the way to $num in the for loop for me.

http://get-powershell.com/2008/02/26/scripting-games-event-6-select-prime/

Andy
http://www.get-powershell.com

Shay Levy said...

That's interesting. measure-command is such an important cmdlet.

Thank you for posting that.