Finding the 10001st prime number (in python)? [duplicate]
问题 This question already has answers here : Fastest way to list all primes below N (34 answers) Closed 3 years ago . I'm currently trying to use an implementation of the sieve of erasthonese, but it still takes a very long time to find a long list of prime numbers. def sieve(n=1000000): not_prime = [] prime = [] for i in range(2, n+1): if i not in not_prime: prime.append(i) for j in range(i*i, n+1, i): not_prime.append(j) return prime[10002] I tried to hard code to what value the sieve should