Truncatable primes: Difference between revisions

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No zeroes are allowed in truncatable primes.
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'''Sample Output'''
<pre>(998443, 739399)</pre>
 
=={{header|Tcl}}==
<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5
# Optimized version of the Sieve-of-Eratosthenes task solution
proc sieve n {
set primes [list]
if {$n < 2} {return $primes}
set nums [dict create]
for {set i 2} {$i <= $n} {incr i} {
dict set nums $i ""
}
set next 2
set limit [expr {sqrt($n)}]
while {$next <= $limit} {
for {set i $next} {$i <= $n} {incr i $next} {dict unset nums $i}
lappend primes $next
dict for {next -} $nums break
}
return [concat $primes [dict keys $nums]]
}
 
proc isLeftTruncatable n {
global isPrime
while {[string length $n] > 0} {
if {![info exist isPrime($n)]} {
return false
}
set n [string range $n 1 end]
}
return true
}
proc isRightTruncatable n {
global isPrime
while {[string length $n] > 0} {
if {![info exist isPrime($n)]} {
return false
}
set n [string range $n 0 end-1]
}
return true
}
 
# Demo code
set limit 1000000
puts "calculating primes up to $limit"
set primes [sieve $limit]
puts "search space contains [llength $primes] members"
foreach p $primes {
set isPrime($p) "yes"
}
set primes [lreverse $primes]
 
puts "searching for largest left-truncatable prime"
foreach p $primes {
if {[isLeftTruncatable $p]} {
puts FOUND:$p
break
}
}
 
puts "searching for largest right-truncatable prime"
foreach p $primes {
if {[isRightTruncatable $p]} {
puts FOUND:$p
break
}
}</lang>
Output:
<pre>
calculating primes up to 1000000
search space contains 78498 members
searching for largest left-truncatable prime
FOUND:998443
searching for largest right-truncatable prime
FOUND:739399
</pre>