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Prime Number Checking
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A number is called a prime number if the number is only divisible by 1 and itself. The prime numbers have exactly two factors- 1 and the number itself.
For example number 5.
5 is only divisible by 1 and 5. The number of factors of 5 is 2. So, 5 is a prime number.
If the number is 4, it is divisible by 1, 2 and 4. So, instead of 1 and 4, it has another factor 2. The number of factors of 4 is 3. So, it is not a prime number.
So, the main logic of the program is to take the number as input and the number of factors are counted. If the number of factor is 2 then it is a prime number otherwise it is not a prime number.
Algorithm
INPUT: A number.
OUTPUT: Whether it is a prime number or not.
PROCESS:
Step 1: [Taking the input]
Read n [the number which is to be checked]
Step 2: [Checking for the prime number]
Set c<-0
For i=1 to n repeat
If n mod i=0 then
Set c<-c+1
[End of ‘if’]
[End of ‘for’ loop]
If c=2 then
Print "Prime Number"
Else
Print "Not a prime number"
[End of ‘if’]
Step 3: Stop.
Code
Time complexity:
Here for this program the time complexity to check whether a number is a prime number or not is O(n) where n is the given input. For the simplicity of the program the loop has been written from 1 to n to check for a prime number.
But for more optimization we can check from 2 to because a number ‘n’ can have a maximum number of factors. So, we can say the most optimized complexity is O().
Space complexity:
The space complexity of this program is O(1) as it requires a constant number of memory spaces to execute the program.
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