Kotlin Program to Check Whether a Number can be Expressed as Sum of Two Prime Numbers

To accomplish this task, checkPrime() function is created.

The checkPrime() returns 1 if the number passed to the function is a prime number.

Example: Integer as a Sum of Two Prime Numbers

 fun main(args: Array<String>) { val number = 34 var flag = false for (i in 2..number / 2) { // condition for i to be a prime number if (checkPrime(i)) { // condition for n-i to be a prime number if (checkPrime(number - i)) { // n = primeNumber1 + primeNumber2 System.out.printf("%d = %d + %d\n", number, i, number - i) flag = true } } } if (!flag) println("$number cannot be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.") } // Function to check prime number fun checkPrime(num: Int): Boolean { var isPrime = true for (i in 2..num / 2) { if (num % i == 0) { isPrime = false break } } return isPrime }

When you run the program, the output will be:

 34 = 3 + 31 34 = 5 + 29 34 = 11 + 23 34 = 17 + 17 

Here's the equivalent Java code: Java Program to Repesent a Number as a sum of two numbers.

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