A prime number is a natural number that is divisible by only one and itself
Example of prime number
2 3 5 7 etc
Example of prime number programme in C
// Online C compiler to run C program online
#include <stdio.h>
int main( )
{
int n,flag=0;
printf("enter any number\n");
scanf("%d",&n);
if(n<1){
printf("number is not prime number");
}
else{
for(int i=2;i<=n/2;i++){
if(n%i==0){
printf("number is not prime");
flag++;
break;
}
}
if(flag==0){
printf("number is prime");
}
}
return 0 ;
}
An output of this prime number programming in c
enter any number
3
number is prime
In the above prime number programming in c first we have declared int n variable that will store the user input. we know that prime numbers are natural number and it should not be divisible by 1 and itself so in for loop we have used i=2 and i<=n/2 to check prime number