#Project Euler Problem 77 primes = [2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79] L, target = 5000, 11 while True: ways = [1] + [0]*target for p in primes: for i in range(p, target+1): ways[i] += ways[i-p] if ways[target] > L: break target += 1 print "First value written as the sum of primes \nin over", L, "ways:", target