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C Program to Check Whether a Number is Prime or Not

In this example, you will learn to check whether an integer entered by the user is a prime number or not.

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


A prime number is a positive integer that is divisible only by 1 and itself. For example: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17


Program to Check Prime Number

#include int main() { int n, i, flag = 0; printf("Enter a positive integer: "); scanf("%d", &n); for (i = 2; i <= n / 2; ++i) { // condition for non-prime if (n % i == 0) { flag = 1; break; } } if (n == 1) { printf("1 is neither prime nor composite."); } else { if (flag == 0) printf("%d is a prime number.", n); else printf("%d is not a prime number.", n); } return 0; }

Output

Enter a positive integer: 29
29 is a prime number.

In the program, a for loop is iterated from i = 2 to i < n/2.

In each iteration, whether n is perfectly divisible by i is checked using:

if (n % i == 0) { }

If n is perfectly divisible by i, n is not a prime number. In this case, flag is set to 1, and the loop is terminated using the break statement.

After the loop, if n is a prime number, flag will still be 0. However, if n is a non-prime number, flag will be 1.

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