Re: Percentage of Primes
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:59:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 22, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Jared E <eggers.jared at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm brand new to Mathematica, so there's only so much I can teach
myself by playing around with it. Could somebody give me some sample
code for displaying a graph of the percentage of primes from, say, 1 to
1000. The x-axis would be the integers from 1 to 1000 and the y-axis
would indicate the density of primes from 1 to n. I can then figure out
how to apply this code to other types of problems.
Really easy, since Mathematica already the built-in function PrimePi:
PrimePi[n] is the number of primes less than or equal to n.
ListPlot[Table[PrimePi[n]/n, {n, 1, 1000, 1}]]
(That calculates and plots the ratios as decimal fractions; of course
just multiply by 100 for percentage.)
Explanation:
PrimePi[12]
5
Table[PrimePi[n]/n, {n, 1, 12, 1}]
{0, 1/2, 2/3, 1/2, 3/5, 1/2, 4/7, 1/2, 4/9, 2/5, 5/11, 5/12}
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Murray Eisenberg
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