Almost prime

Almost prime is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

A k-Almost-prime number is a natural number $n$, that is the exact multiple of $k$ primes.

So, for example if k is 1, then this is the series of prime numbers themselves. If k is 2 then this is the series of semiprimes.

The task is to write a function/method/subroutine/... that generates k-almost primes and use it to create a table of the first ten members of k-Almost primes for $1<=K<=5$.

Python

<lang python>from prime_decomposition import decompose from itertools import islice, count try:

   from functools import reduce

except:

   pass

def almostprime(n, k=2):

   d = decompose(n)
   try:
       terms = [d.next() for i in range(k)]
       return reduce(int.__mul__, terms, 1) == n
   except:
       return False

if __name__ == '__main__':

   for k in range(1,6):
       print('%i: %r' % (k, list(islice((n for n in count() if almostprime(n, k)), 10))))</lang>

Output:

1: [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29]
2: [4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26]
3: [8, 12, 18, 20, 27, 28, 30, 42, 44, 45]
4: [16, 24, 36, 40, 54, 56, 60, 81, 84, 88]
5: [32, 48, 72, 80, 108, 112, 120, 162, 168, 176]