Prime Numbers in Range in Java

Print all prime numbers in a given range.

IntermediateModule 3: Loop ProgramsExample 9 of 25
prime-numbers-in-range.java
1public class Main {
2 private static boolean isPrime(int n) {
3 if (n <= 1) return false;
4 if (n == 2) return true;
5 if (n % 2 == 0) return false;
6 for (int i = 3; i * i <= n; i += 2) {
7 if (n % i == 0) return false;
8 }
9 return true;
10 }
11
12 public static void main(String[] args) {
13 for (int i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
14 if (isPrime(i)) {
15 System.out.print(i + " ");
16 }
17 }
18 }
19}

Output

2 3 5 7 11 13 ... 97

What's going on

We implement a simple primality test and loop through the range, printing primes.