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Created June 20, 2015 02:39
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Quick function to determine if your name adds up to a prime number.
// ****
// Because I spent all week writing javascript, then I saw this:
// https://instagram.com/p/4DJNNbR5_P/
// and needed to automate it, like so:
// > getNumber("Wolfgang Mozart")
// returns: "Your name is not a prime number: Wolfgang Mozart (178)."
// ****
var getNumber = function getNumber(nameString) {
var arr = nameString.toLowerCase().split('');
var key = " abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".split('');
var count = 0;
for(var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
count += key.indexOf(arr[i]);
}
// Primes list from function: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12287599
isPrimeIndex = ([2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, 211, 223, 227, 229, 233, 239, 241, 251, 257, 263, 269, 271, 277, 281, 283, 293].indexOf(count) !== -1);
return "Your name is " + ["not "," "][isPrimeIndex*1] + "a prime number: "+nameString+" ("+count+").";
}
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