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Twin Primes Recursion Limit
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I'm working on this same problem too and ran into an error trying to get the twin prime numbers to work. I get a recursion error when checking the prime list.
def primeCheck(n):
    prime_list = [2]
    twin_prime_list = [2]
    for number in range(3, n, 2):
        if all(number % i != 0 for i in range(2, int(number ** .5) + 1)):
            prime_list.append(number)
        if primeCheck(n) and primeCheck(n + 2):
            twin_prime_list.append(n , n + 2)
    return prime_list
    print(twin_prime_list)       
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Twin Primes Recursion Limit - by djkraft - Sep-25-2017, 02:56 PM
RE: Twin Primes Recursion Limit - by nilamo - Sep-25-2017, 03:47 PM
RE: Twin Primes Recursion Limit - by ichabod801 - Sep-25-2017, 04:16 PM
RE: Twin Primes Recursion Limit - by Mekire - Sep-25-2017, 04:23 PM
RE: Twin Primes Recursion Limit - by djkraft - Sep-25-2017, 10:56 PM

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