C Program to Check Whether a Number can be Expressed as Sum of Two Prime Numbers

In this example, you will learn to check if an integer entered by the user can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers of all possible combinations.

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To understand this example, you should have the knowledge of the following C programming topics:

To accomplish this task, we will create a function named checkPrime().

The checkPrime() returns 1 if the number passed to the function is a prime number.

Integer as a Sum of Two Prime Numbers

#include 
int checkPrime(int n);
int main() {
    int n, i, flag = 0;
    printf("Enter a positive integer: ");
    scanf("%d", &n);

    for (i = 2; i <= n / 2; ++i) {
        // condition for i to be a prime number
        if (checkPrime(i) == 1) {
            // condition for n-i to be a prime number
            if (checkPrime(n - i) == 1) {
                printf("%d = %d + %d\n", n, i, n - i);
                flag = 1;
            }
        }
    }
    if (flag == 0)
        printf("%d cannot be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.", n);

    return 0;
}

// function to check prime number
int checkPrime(int n) {
    int i, isPrime = 1;
    for (i = 2; i <= n / 2; ++i) {
        if (n % i == 0) {
            isPrime = 0;
            break;
        }
    }
    return isPrime;
}

Output

Enter a positive integer: 34
34 = 3 + 31
34 = 5 + 29
34 = 11 + 23
34 = 17 + 17