For any even number n greater than or equal to 4, there exists at least one pair of prime numbers p1 and p2 such that n = p1 + p2 This conjecture has not been proved nor refused yet. No one is sure whether this conjecture actually holds. However, one…

In 1742, Christian Goldbach, a German amateur mathematician, sent a letter to Leonhard Euler in which he made the following conjecture: Every even number greater than 4 can be written as the sum of two odd prime numbers. For example: 8 = 3 + 5. Both…

Everybody knows any number can be combined by the prime number. Now, your task is telling me what position of the largest prime factor. The position of prime 2 is 1, prime 3 is 2, and prime 5 is 3, etc. Specially, LPF(1) = 0.  InputEach line will con…

The least common multiple (LCM) of a set of positive integers is the smallest positive integer which is divisible by all the numbers in the set. For example, the LCM of 5, 7 and 15 is 105. InputInput will consist of multiple problem instances. The fi…

A Compiler Mystery: We are given a C-language style for loop of type for (variable = A; variable != B; variable += C) statement; I.e., a loop which starts by setting variable to value A and while variable is not equal to B, repeats statement followed…

Everybody in the Prime Land is using a prime base number system. In this system, each positive integer x is represented as follows: Let {pi}i=0,1,2,... denote the increasing sequence of all prime numbers. We know that x > 1 can be represented in only…

Given a sequence of consecutive integers n,n+1,n+2,...,m, an anti-prime sequence is a rearrangement of these integers so that each adjacent pair of integers sums to a composite (non-prime) number. For example, if n = 1 and m = 10, one such anti-prime…

A prime number is a counting number (1, 2, 3, ...) that is evenly divisible only by 1 and itself. In this problem you are to write a program that will cut some number of prime numbers from the list of prime numbers between (and including) 1 and N. Yo…

The sequence of n − 1 consecutive composite numbers (positive integers that are not prime and not equal to 1) lying between two successive prime numbers p and p + n is called a prime gap of length n. For example, ‹24, 25, 26, 27, 28› between 23 and 2…

We say that x is a perfect square if, for some integer b, x = b 2. Similarly, x is a perfect cube if, for some integer b, x = b 3. More generally, x is a perfect pth power if, for some integer b, x = b p. Given an integer x you are to determine the l…