Challenge 2

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This month’s challenge is back to basics – finding prime numbers.

I am interested in two functions:

1. getPrimes(n,t) – where n is a positive integer and t can be one of two values. If it is 1 getPrimes returns the first n primes. If it is 2 getPrimes will return all primes less than or equal to n. You can assume the value of n will not exceed 1e8.
2. isPrime(vec) – where vec is a nRow row, 1 column matrix of integer values no greater than 4e14. It is to return a matrix of 1’s and 0’s where vec[i] = 1 indicates the ith element of vec is prime and 0 it is not prime. The input test vector will contain between 100 and 1000 elements (but the function should be able to accepts larger or smaller vectors).

Examples:

   getPrimes(10,1) would return [2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29]

   getPrimes(10,2) would return [2,3,5,7]

   isPrime([-1,0,2,4,5]) would return [0,0,1,0,1]

Scoring: 4 points for each function. 3, 2, and 1 point for the fastest solution (awarded separately for each function). 3 points if your solution is as fast or faster than the fastest submitted by a staff member.

Submission deadline is Friday. May 15, 11:59 pm Eastern Time.