Truncatable primes
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A truncatable prime is prime number that when you successively remove digits from one end of the prime, you are left with a new prime number; for example, the number 997 is called a left-truncatable prime as the numbers 997, 97, and 7 are all prime. The number 7393 is a right-truncatable prime as the numbers 7393, 739, 73, and 7 formed by removing digits from its right are also prime.
The task is to find the largest left-truncatable and right-truncatable primes less than one million.
C.f: Sieve of Eratosthenes; Truncatable Prime from Mathworld.
Python
<lang python>maxprime = 1000000
def primes(n):
multiples = set()
prime = []
for i in range(2, n+1):
if i not in multiples:
prime.append(i)
multiples.update(set(range(i*i, n+1, i)))
return prime
def truncatableprime(n):
'Return a longest left and right truncatable primes below n'
primelist = [str(x) for x in primes(n)[::-1]]
primeset = set(primelist)
for n in primelist:
alltruncs = set(n[i:] for i in range(len(n)))
if alltruncs.issubset(primeset):
truncateleft = int(n)
break
for n in primelist:
alltruncs = set([n[:i+1] for i in range(len(n))])
if alltruncs.issubset(primeset):
truncateright = int(n)
break
return truncateleft, truncateright
print(truncatableprime(maxprime))</lang>
Sample Output
(998443, 739399)