TL;DR

Here we are with TASK #1 from The Weekly Challenge #158. Enjoy!

# The challenge

Write a script to find out all Additive Primes <= 100.

Additive primes are prime numbers for which the sum of their decimal digits are also primes.

Output

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 23, 29, 41, 43, 47, 61, 67, 83, 89


# The questions

This time I have a little nit-pick on the language used, in that “the sum” (singular) “are also primes” (plural). Does this mean that this should go all the way up reaching one digit only? I’ll assume not, because the 89 in the example has decimal digits sum 17, which is prime but not additive prime by itself (the sum of its digits being 8).

# The solution

The test for an additive prime will be very very straightforward:

• check that the number is prime
• check that the number resulting from the sum of its digits is prime.

#!/usr/bin/env raku
use v6;
sub MAIN (Int:D $M = 100) { (2 ..$M).grep({$_.is-prime &&$_.comb.sum.is-prime}).join(', ').put;
}


Short and sweet. The check for primality is a built-in is-prime; summing the digits leverages on the fact that the default representation of Ints as strings is in base 10, so it suffices to isolate the individual digits with comb and sum them.

The Perl version is more or less on par, with a few more inclusions for extra batteries (is_prime and sum):

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use v5.24;
use FindBin '$Bin'; use lib "$Bin/local/lib/perl5";
use ntheory 'is_prime';
use List::Util 'sum';

my $M = shift // 100; say join ', ', grep { is_prime($_) && is_prime sum split m{}mxs } 2 .. \$M;


The primality test is courtesy of ntheory, although in this specific case it’s overkill because getting primes up to 100 might be done with a simple lookup table. Whatever.

Stay safe folks!

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