Java Program to Display Prime Numbers

This post shows a Java program to display prime numbers.

As we know that a number is a prime number if it is a natural number greater than 1 and it can be divided either by 1 or by the number itself. As example- 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 ….

To check if a number is prime or not you need to run a loop starting from 2 till number/2 to check if number has any divisor.

For example, if number is 8 then you just need to check till 4 (8/2) to see if it divides by any number or not. Same way if you have a number 15 you just need to check till 7 to see if it divides completely by any number or not. We'll use the same logic to write our program to display prime numbers up to the given upper range.

Java program to print prime numbers

import java.util.Scanner;

public class PrintPrime {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // take input from the user
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter number till which prime numbers are to be printed: ");
    int num = sc.nextInt();
    for(int i = 2; i <= num; i++){
      if(isPrime(i)){
        System.out.print(i + " ");
      }
    }
  }
  // Method to check if the passed number
  // is prime or not    
  private static boolean isPrime(int num){
    boolean flag = true;
    // loop from 2, increment it till number/2
    for(int i = 2; i <= num/2; i++){
      // no remainder, means divides 
      if(num % i == 0){
        flag = false;
        break;
      }
    }
    return flag;
  }
}

Output

Enter number till which prime numbers are to be printed: 
50
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47

Here scanner class is used to get input from the user.

• Refer How to read input from console in Java to see other ways to get input from user.

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