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#!/usr/bin/perl
# https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-146/
# TASK #1 > 10001st Prime Number
#
# Write a script to generate the 10001st prime number.
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
my $n = 1;
my $count = 0;
do {} until (is_prime(++$n) && ++$count == 10001 && print $n);
sub is_prime {
my $n = shift;
#every composite number has a prime factor less than or equal to its square root.
return 1 == grep {$n % $_ == 0} (1 .. sqrt $n);
}
__END__
$ time ./ch-1.pl
104743
real 0m2.137s
user 0m2.106s
sys 0m0.030s
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