Re: Prime Puzzle with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg92707] Re: [mg92680] Prime Puzzle with Mathematica
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:43:04 -0400 (EDT)
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On 10 Oct 2008, at 17:35, amzoti wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> trying to find an efficient way to this in Mathematica.
>
> I found the answer - but it was a manual list manipulation - and it
> was ugly!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> 3 Nice Primes:
>
> Find three 2-digit prime numbers such that:
>
> * The average of any two of the three is a prime number, and
> * The average of all three is also a prime number
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~A
>
I assume that you do not want any repetitions in your lists of three
numbers (i.e. {11,11,11} does not count). So
ls1 = Select[Range[11, 99], PrimeQ];
ls2 = Tuples[ls1, {3}];
ls3 = DeleteCases[Union[Sort /@ ls2], {___, x_, ___, x_, ___}];
Now
AverageIsPrime = Select[ls3, PrimeQ[Mean[#]] &];
Length[AverageIsPrime]
144
The other one is shorter:
AverageOfEachPairIsPrime = Select[ls3, And @@ PrimeQ /@ Mean /@
Partition[#1, 2, 1, {1, 1}] & ]
{{11, 23, 71}, {11, 23, 83}, {11, 47, 71}, {13, 61, 73}, {17, 29, 89},
{23, 59, 83}, {29, 53, 89}}
Andrzej Kozlowski
- References:
- Prime Puzzle with Mathematica
- From: amzoti <amzoti@gmail.com>
- Prime Puzzle with Mathematica