Sum Of Four Primes
January 27, 2015
Today’s exercise comes from one of those competitive programming websites. I never participate in the coding frenzy at those sites, because the competitiveness at extracting every last millisecond from the run time or deleting every unneeded character from the program text ruins the pleasure, but some of the problems are fun:
Given a positive integer 7 < n ≤ 10000000, find four prime numbers with sum n. For instance, 46 = 11 + 11 + 17 + 7.
Your task is to write a program to find four primes that sum to n. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 