Project Euler #7: 10001st Prime

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This post is literate Haskell; you can load the source into GHCi and play along.

First some boilerplate.

module ProjectEuler007 where

Problem 7 from Project Euler:

We already wrote a utility to list the primes for Problem 3:

isprime :: Integer -> Bool
isprime n = all (\p -> n`rem`p /= 0) $
  takeWhile (\p -> p^2 <= n) primes

primes :: [Integer]
primes = 2 : filter isprime [3,5..]

There is no (known, useful) formula for generating the \(n\)th prime, so I’ll just take the 10001th entry of primes.

pe7' :: Integer -> Integer
pe7' n = elt_at n primes
  where
    elt_at :: Integer -> [a] -> a
    elt_at n (x:xs) = if n == 1
      then x
      else elt_at (n-1) xs

woo

So the final answer is

pe7 :: Integer
pe7 = pe7' 10001

main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn $ show pe7