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asked 2020-05-03 12:46:41 +0100

Sam_Na gravatar image

updated 2020-05-04 13:22:34 +0100

Hello everyone, I'using Sage for three weeks now and I got a problem.I have been looking for the error in this code for about 3 days and I can't figure it out. Maybe you can help me :)

var("a,b,n")
f(n)=n^2+a*n+b:
for a in range(1,41):
for b in range(1,41):
if f(n) in ZZ
for n in range(0,41)
if is_prime(f(n)):
print(a); print(b)

I'm getting the error:

__tmp__=var("n"); f = symbolic_expression(n**Integer(2)+a*n+b:).function(n)
                                                                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I hope you can help me :)

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There is no need at all for final ";" in sage. And branching commands (if, for,and so on) require a final colon ":", not a final ";"

FrédéricC gravatar imageFrédéricC ( 2020-05-03 15:18:28 +0100 )edit

Weclome to Ask Sage. Thank you for your question.

slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2020-05-03 15:21:58 +0100 )edit

It seems the indentation was lost, please edit your question to fix that.

Also please remove semicolons at the end of lines, they are not needed.

slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 2020-05-03 15:22:00 +0100 )edit

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answered 2020-05-03 15:10:44 +0100

tmonteil gravatar image

updated 2020-05-04 14:29:41 +0100

You seem to be confusing symbolic variables with Python names. Since you plan to let a,b,n take som precise integer values, you should better define f = n^2+a*n+b only when a, b, n get a value, that is inside the loop.

I could help to rewrite the code, but I am not surre about your objective, do you want to find all tuples (a,b,n) in $\{1,40\} \times \{1,40\} \times \{0,40\}$ such that n^2+a*n+b is prime ?

Also, what are you trying to test when you write if f(n) in ZZ ?

EDIT

To test a couple (a,b), you can define the function:

def test(a, b):
    return all(is_prime(n^2+a*n+b) for n in range(1,41))

Now, you can run your test for the first pairs a,b:

for a in range(100):
    for b in range(100):
        if test(a,b):
            print(a,b)

Unfortunately, you will not find any pair in that range.

Note that when a,b,n are integers, n^2+a*n+b is also an integer.

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Thanks for your answer. I am looking for a quadratic polynomial f(n)=n^2+a*x+b with a and b from the natural numbers. so when I write if f(n) in ZZ I'm trying to get the natural numbers
f(n) should then give me only prime numbers for all n values between 1 and 40. So I'm not sure if I have to define a and b to beZZ? Thanks a lot :)

Sam_Na gravatar imageSam_Na ( 2020-05-04 13:21:34 +0100 )edit

Ahh thank you very much. It worked well!! :D Okay now I'm thinking of doing a kind of list to get the is_prime()in range(1,41) for both a and b. So I have a list like True True False . . . Till 41

Do you have any tips to create a list like that? :) Thank you very much

Sam_Na gravatar imageSam_Na ( 2020-05-04 19:56:34 +0100 )edit

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