exercism/go/nth-prime/nth_prime.go

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Go

package prime
var sieve []int
// Nth finds the nth prime and 'true' if the 0th prime wasn't requested
func Nth(n int) (int, bool) {
if n == 0 {
return 0, false
}
if len(sieve) == 0 {
// Let's just do some initialization
sieve = append(sieve, 0)
sieve = append(sieve, 2)
}
sieveLen := len(sieve)
for i := sieve[len(sieve)-1]; sieveLen <= n; i++ {
isPrime := true
for j := 1; j < sieveLen; j++ {
if i%sieve[j] == 0 {
isPrime = false
break
}
}
if isPrime {
// Found a new prime
sieve = append(sieve, i)
sieveLen = len(sieve)
}
}
return sieve[n], true
}