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Find the 10001st Prime Number
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Find the 10001st Prime Number

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Problem

Write a program to find the 10001st prime number, where the 1st prime is 2, 2nd is 3, 3rd is 5, and 4th is 7

Implement find_nth_prime(n) and return the nth prime using one-based indexing. For the required case, call the function with n = 10001.

Constraints

  • 1 <= n <= 10001
  • Prime positions are one-based
  • Return an integer containing the nth prime

Function Signature

def find_nth_prime(n):
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