The number, 197, is called a circular prime because all rotations of the digits: 197, 971, and 719, are themselves prime.
There are thirteen such primes below 100: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 31, 37, 71, 73, 79, and 97.
Given a number x, write a MATLAB script that will tell you the number of circular primes less than or equal to x as well as a sorted list of what the circular prime numbers are.
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Ryan
on 5 Dec 2012
Very nice problem!
Christopher
on 5 Dec 2012
How do you return two separable outputs via a single vector?
James
on 6 Dec 2012
Christopher, I should have been more clear in the problem description.
There are two outputs to the function. The first output (how_many) is a scalar, and is the number of circular primes.
The second output (what_numbers) is the vector containing the values of the circular primes.
Does this help?
Christopher
on 18 Dec 2012
197 is not circular prime, because neither 791 nor 917 are themselves prime. Only test case 2 is correct.
James
on 19 Dec 2012
Christopher, if our number is represented as ABC, then a cicrular prime is a number where ABC, BCA, and CAB are all prime. You are either shifting the numbers in the opposite direction or scrambling them. Not every permutation of the numbers has to be a prime number, although that in itself would be an interesting Cody problem. :-)
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Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 19 Mar 2013
Size world record ?
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Aurelien Queffurust
on 12 Dec 2012
circul -ez y a rien à voir :)
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