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#!/usr/bin/env python

def prime(n):
  for i in range(n, 1, -1):
    print "testing " + i
#    if i % 1000 == 0 :
#      return n
print prime(60085147514

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./exo.py", line 8, in <module>
    print prime(600851475143)
  File "./exo.py", line 4, in prime
    for i in range(n, 1, -1):
OverflowError: range() result has too many items