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Primes or prime numbers are numbers which are divisible only by themselves and one, starting with 2, 3, 5, 7, 11.... They are commonly used in encryption and hashing algorithms.

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Generate nth prime number in Python

overall this naive method consumes a lot of time, it's O(sqrt(n) * n) where n is the total number of integers tested, I suggest you learn more about Sieve of Eratosthenes, it's an algorithm for finding all primes
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