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Get the consecutive numbers whose sum matches with given number

I was going through a simple program that takes a number and finds the number of occurrences of consecutive numbers that matches with given number.
For example:
if input is 15, then the consecutive numbers that sum upto 15 are:
1,2,3,4,5
4,5,6
7,8
So the answer is 3 as we have 3 possibilities here.
When I was looking for a solution I found out below answer:
static long process(long input) {
long count = 0;
for (long j = 2; j < input/ 2; j++) {
long temp = (j * (j + 1)) / 2;
if (temp > input) {
break;
}
if ((input- temp) % j == 0) {
count++;
}
}
return count;
}
I am not able to understand how this solves the requirement because this program is using some formula which I am not able to understand properly, below are my doubts:
The for loop starts from 2, what is the reason for this?
long temp = (j * (j + 1)) / 2; What does this logic indicates? How is this helpful to solving the problem?
if ((num - temp) % j == 0) Also what does this indicate?
Please help me in understanding this solution.

I will try to explain this as simple as possible.
If input is 15, then the consecutive numbers that sum upto 15 are:
{1,2,3,4,5} -> 5 numbers
{4,5,6} -> 3 numbers
{7,8} -> 2 numbers
At worst case, this must be less than the Sum of 1st n natural numbers = (n*(n+1) /2.
So for a number 15, there can never be a combination of 6 consecutive numbers summing up to 15 as the sum of 1st 6 numbers =21 which is greater than 15.
Calculate temp: This is (j*(j+1))/2.
Take an example. Let input = 15. Let j =2.
temp = 2*3/2 = 3; #Meaning 1+2 =3
For a 2-number pair, let the 2 terms be 'a+1' and 'a+2'.(Because we know that the numbers are consecutive.)
Now, according to the question, the sum must add up to the number.
This means 2a+3 =15;
And if (15-3) is divisible by 2, 'a' can be found. a=6 -> a+1=7 and a+2=8
Similarly, let a+1 ,a+2 and a+3
a + 1 + a + 2 + a + 3 = 15
3a + 6 = 15
(15-6) must be divisible by 3.
Finally, for 5 consecutive numbers a+1,a+2,a+3,a+4,a+5 , we have
5a + 15 = 15;
(15-15) must be divisible by 5.
So, the count will be changed for j =2,3 and 5 when the input is 15
If the loop were to start from 1, then we would be counting 1 number set too -> {15} which is not needed
To summarize:
1) The for loop starts from 2, what is the reason for this?
We are not worried about 1-number set here.
2) long temp = (j * (j + 1)) / 2; What does this logic indicates? How is this helpful to solving the problem?
This is because of the sum of 1st n natural numbers property as I have
explained the above by taking a+1 and a+2 as 2 consecutive
numbers.
3) if ((num - temp) % j == 0) Also what does this indicate?
This indicates the logic that the input subtracted from the sum of 1st
j natural numbers must be divisible by j.

We need to find all as and ns, that for given b the following is true:
a + (a + 1) + (a + 2) + ... (a + (n - 1)) = b
The left side is an arithmetic progression and can be written as:
(a + (n - 1) / 2) * n = b (*)
To find the limit value of n, we know, that a > 0, so:
(1 + (n - 1) / 2) * n = n(n + 1) / 2 <= b
n(n + 1) <= 2b
n^2 + n + 1/4 <= 2b + 1/4
(n + 1/2)^2 <= 2b + 1/4
n <= sqrt(2b + 1/4) - 1/2
Now we can rewrite (*) to get formula for a:
a = b / n - (n - 1) / 2
Example for b = 15 and n = 3:
15 / 3 - (3 - 1) / 2 = 4 => 4 + 5 + 6 = 15
And now the code:
double b = 15;
for (double n = 2; n <= Math.ceil(Math.sqrt(2 * b + .25) - .5); n++) {
double candidate = b / n - (n - 1) / 2;
if (candidate == (int) candidate) {
System.out.println("" + candidate + IntStream.range(1, (int) n).mapToObj(i -> " + " + (candidate + i)).reduce((s1, s2) -> s1 + s2).get() + " = " + b);
}
}
The result is:
7.0 + 8.0 = 15.0
4.0 + 5.0 + 6.0 = 15.0
1.0 + 2.0 + 3.0 + 4.0 + 5.0 = 15.0

We are looking for consecutive numbers that sum up to the given number.
It's quite obvious that there could be at most one series with a given length, so basically we are looking for those values witch could be the length of such a series.
variable 'j' is the tested length. It starts from 2 because the series must be at least 2 long.
variable 'temp' is the sum of a arithmetic progression from 1 to 'j'.
If there is a proper series then let X the first element. In this case 'input' = j*(X-1) + temp.
(So if temp> input then we finished)
At the last line it checks if there is an integer solution of the equation. If there is, then increase the counter, because there is a series with j element which is a solution.
Actually the solution is wrong, because it won't find solution if input = 3. (It will terminate immediately.) the cycle should be:
for(long j=2;;j++)
The other condition terminates the cycle faster anyway.

NB: loop is starting from 2 because=> (1*(1+1))/2 == 1, which doesn't make sense, i.e, it doesn't effect on the progress;
let, k = 21;
so loop will iterate upto (k/2) => 10 times;
temp = (j*(j+1))/2 => which is, 3 when j =2, 6 when j = 3, and so on (it calculates sum of N natural numbers)
temp > k => will break the loop because, we don't need to iterate the loop when we got 'sum' which is more than 'K'
((k-temp)%j) == 0 => it is basically true when the input subtracted from the sum of first j natural numbers are be divisible by j, if so then increment the count to get total numbers of such equation!

public static long process(long input) {
long count = 0, rest_of_sum;
for (long length = 2; length < input / 2; length++) {
long partial_sum = (length * (length + 1)) / 2;
if (partial_sum > input) {
break;
}
rest_of_sum = input - partial_sum
if (rest_of_sum % length == 0)
count++;
}
return count;
}
input - given input number here it is 15
length - consecutive numbers length this is at-least 2 at max input/2
partial_sum = sum of numbers from 1 to length (which is a*(a+1)/2 for 1 to a numbers) assume this is a partial sequence
rest_of_sum = indicates the balance left in input
if rest of sum is multiple of length meaning is that we can add (rest_of_sum/length) to our partial sequence
lets call (rest_of_sum/length) as k
this only means we can build a sequence here that sums up to our input number
starting with (k+1) , (k+2), ... (k+length)
this can validated now
(k+1) + (k+2) + ... (k+length)
we can reduce this as k+k+k+.. length times + (1+2+3..length)
can be reduced as => k* length + partial_sum
can be reduced as => input (since we verified this now)
So idea here is to increment count every-time we find a length which satisfies this case here

If you put this tweak in it may fix code. I have not extensively tested it. It's an odd one but it puts the code through an extra iteration to fix the early miscalculations. Even 1/20000 would work! Had this been done with floats that got rounded down and 1 added to them I think that would have worked too:
for (long j = 2; j < input+ (1/2); j++) {
In essence you need to only know one formula:
The sum of the numbers m..n (or m to n) (and where n>m in code)
This is ((n-m+1)*(n+m))/2
As I have commented already the code in the original question was bugged.
See here.
Trying feeding it 3. That has 1 occurrence of the consecutive numbers 1,2. It yields 0.
Or 5. That has 2,3 - should yield 1 too - gives 0.
Or 6. This has 1,2,3 - should yield 1 too - gives 0.
In your original code, temp or (j * (j + 1)) / 2 represented the sum of the numbers 1 to j.
1 2 3 4 5
5 4 3 2 1
=======
6 6 6 6 6 => (5 x 6) /2 => 30/2 => 15
As I have shown in the code below - use System.out.println(); to spew out debugging info.
If you want to perfect it make sure m and n's upper limits are half i, and i+1 respectively, rounding down if odd. e.g: (i=15 -> m=7 & n=8)
The code:
class Playground {
private static class CountRes {
String ranges;
long count;
CountRes(String ranges, long count) {
this.ranges = ranges;
this.count = count;
}
String getRanges() {
return this.ranges;
}
long getCount() {
return this.count;
}
}
static long sumMtoN(long m, long n) {
return ((n-m+1)* (n+m))/2;
}
static Playground.CountRes countConsecutiveSums(long i, boolean d) {
long count = 0;
StringBuilder res = new StringBuilder("[");
for (long m = 1; m< 10; m++) {
for (long n = m+1; n<=10; n++) {
long r = Playground.sumMtoN(m,n);
if (d) {
System.out.println(String.format("%d..%d %d",m,n, r));
}
if (i == r) {
count++;
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(String.format("[%d..%d], ",m,n));
res.append(s);
}
}
}
if (res.length() > 2) {
res = new StringBuilder(res.substring(0,res.length()-2));
}
res.append("]");
return new CountRes(res.toString(), count);
}
public static void main(String[ ] args) {
Playground.CountRes o = countConsecutiveSums(3, true);
for (long i=3; i<=15; i++) {
o = Playground.countConsecutiveSums(i,false);
System.out.println(String.format("i: %d Count: %d Instances: %s", i, o.getCount(), o.getRanges()));
}
}
}
You can try running it here
The output:
1..2 3
1..3 6
1..4 10
1..5 15
1..6 21
1..7 28
1..8 36
1..9 45
1..10 55
2..3 5
2..4 9
2..5 14
2..6 20
2..7 27
2..8 35
2..9 44
2..10 54
3..4 7
3..5 12
3..6 18
3..7 25
3..8 33
3..9 42
3..10 52
4..5 9
4..6 15
4..7 22
4..8 30
4..9 39
4..10 49
5..6 11
5..7 18
5..8 26
5..9 35
5..10 45
6..7 13
6..8 21
6..9 30
6..10 40
7..8 15
7..9 24
7..10 34
8..9 17
8..10 27
9..10 19
i: 3 Count: 1 Instances: [[1..2]]
i: 4 Count: 0 Instances: []
i: 5 Count: 1 Instances: [[2..3]]
i: 6 Count: 1 Instances: [[1..3]]
i: 7 Count: 1 Instances: [[3..4]]
i: 8 Count: 0 Instances: []
i: 9 Count: 2 Instances: [[2..4], [4..5]]
i: 10 Count: 1 Instances: [[1..4]]
i: 11 Count: 1 Instances: [[5..6]]
i: 12 Count: 1 Instances: [[3..5]]
i: 13 Count: 1 Instances: [[6..7]]
i: 14 Count: 1 Instances: [[2..5]]
i: 15 Count: 3 Instances: [[1..5], [4..6], [7..8]]

Optimal and efficient solution for the heavy number calculation?

I need to find the number of heavy integers between two integers A and B, where A <= B at all times.
An integer is considered heavy whenever the average of it's digit is larger than 7.
For example: 9878 is considered heavy, because (9 + 8 + 7 + 8)/4 = 8
, while 1111 is not, since (1 + 1 + 1 + 1)/4 = 1.
I have the solution below, but it's absolutely terrible and it times out when run with large inputs. What can I do to make it more efficient?
int countHeavy(int A, int B) {
int countHeavy = 0;
while(A <= B){
if(averageOfDigits(A) > 7){
countHeavy++;
}
A++;
}
return countHeavy;
}
float averageOfDigits(int a) {
float result = 0;
int count = 0;
while (a > 0) {
result += (a % 10);
count++;
a = a / 10;
}
return result / count;
}

Counting the numbers with a look-up table
You can generate a table that stores how many integers with d digits have a sum of their digits that is greater than a number x. Then, you can quickly look up how many heavy numbers there are in any range of 10, 100, 1000 ... integers. These tables hold only 9×d values, so they take up very little space and can be quickly generated.
Then, to check a range A-B where B has d digits, you build the tables for 1 to d-1 digits, and then you split the range A-B into chunks of 10, 100, 1000 ... and look up the values in the tables, e.g. for the range A = 782, B = 4321:
RANGE DIGITS TARGET LOOKUP VALUE
782 - 789 78x > 6 table[1][ 6] 3 <- incomplete range: 2-9
790 - 799 79x > 5 table[1][ 5] 4
800 - 899 8xx >13 table[2][13] 15
900 - 999 9xx >12 table[2][12] 21
1000 - 1999 1xxx >27 table[3][27] 0
2000 - 2999 2xxx >26 table[3][26] 1
3000 - 3999 3xxx >25 table[3][25] 4
4000 - 4099 40xx >24 impossible 0
4100 - 4199 41xx >23 impossible 0
4200 - 4299 42xx >22 impossible 0
4300 - 4309 430x >21 impossible 0
4310 - 4319 431x >20 impossible 0
4320 - 4321 432x >19 impossible 0 <- incomplete range: 0-1
--
48
If the first and last range are incomplete (not *0 - *9), check the starting value or the end value against the target. (In the example, 2 is not greater than 6, so all 3 heavy numbers are included in the range.)
Generating the look-up table
For 1-digit decimal integers, the number of integers n that is greater than value x is:
x: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
n: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
As you can see, this is easily calculated by taking n = 9-x.
For 2-digit decimal integers, the number of integers n whose sum of digits is greater than value x is:
x: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
n: 99 97 94 90 85 79 72 64 55 45 36 28 21 15 10 6 3 1 0
For 3-digit decimal integers, the number of integers n whose sum of digits is greater than value x is:
x: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
n: 999 996 990 980 965 944 916 880 835 780 717 648 575 500 425 352 283 220 165 120 84 56 35 20 10 4 1 0
Each of these sequences can be generated from the previous one: start with value 10d and then subtract from this value the previous sequence in reverse (skipping the first zero). E.g. to generate the sequence for 3 digits from the sequence for 2 digits, start with 103 = 1000, and then:
0. 1000 - 1 = 999
1. 999 - 3 = 996
2. 996 - 6 = 990
3. 990 - 10 = 980
4. 980 - 15 = 965
5. 965 - 21 = 944
6. 944 - 28 = 916
7. 916 - 36 = 880
8. 880 - 45 = 835
9. 835 - 55 = 780
10. 780 - 64 + 1 = 717 <- after 10 steps, start adding the previous sequence again
11. 717 - 72 + 3 = 648
12. 648 - 79 + 6 = 575
13. 575 - 85 + 10 = 500
14. 500 - 90 + 15 = 425
15. 425 - 94 + 21 = 352
16. 352 - 97 + 28 = 283
17. 283 - 99 + 36 = 220
18. 220 - 100 + 45 = 165 <- at the end of the sequence, keep subtracting 10^(d-1)
19. 165 - 100 + 55 = 120
20. 120 - 100 + 64 = 84
21. 84 - 100 + 72 = 56
22. 56 - 100 + 79 = 35
23. 35 - 100 + 85 = 20
24. 20 - 100 + 90 = 10
25. 10 - 100 + 94 = 4
26. 4 - 100 + 97 = 1
27. 1 - 100 + 99 = 0
By the way, you can use the same tables if "heavy" numbers are defined with a value other than 7.
Code example
Below is a Javascript code snippet (I don't speak Java) that demonstrates the method. It is very much unoptimised, but it does the 0→100,000,000 example in less than 0.07ms. It also works for weights other than 7. Translated to Java, it should easily beat any algorithm that actually runs through the numbers and checks their weight.
function countHeavy(A, B, weight) {
var a = decimalDigits(A), b = decimalDigits(B); // create arrays
while (a.length < b.length) a.push(0); // add leading zeros
var digits = b.length, table = weightTable(); // create table
var count = 0, diff = B - A + 1, d = 0; // calculate range
for (var i = digits - 1; i >= 0; i--) if (a[i]) d = i; // lowest non-0 digit
while (diff) { // increment a until a=b
while (a[d] == 10) { // move to higher digit
a[d++] = 0;
++a[d]; // carry 1
}
var step = Math.pow(10, d); // value of digit d
if (step <= diff) {
diff -= step;
count += increment(d); // increment digit d
}
else --d; // move to lower digit
}
return count;
function weightTable() { // see above for details
var t = [[],[9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0]];
for (var i = 2; i < digits; i++) {
var total = Math.pow(10, i), final = total / 10;
t[i] = [];
for (var j = 9 * i; total > 0; --j) {
if (j > 9) total -= t[i - 1][j - 10]; else total -= final;
if (j < 9 * (i - 1)) total += t[i - 1][j];
t[i].push(total);
}
}
return t;
}
function increment(d) {
var sum = 0, size = digits;
for (var i = digits - 1; i >= d; i--) {
if (a[i] == 0 && i == size - 1) size = i; // count used digits
sum += a[i]; // sum of digits
}
++a[d];
var target = weight * size - sum;
if (d == 0) return (target < 0) ? 1 : 0; // if d is lowest digit
if (target < 0) return table[d][0] + 1; // whole range is heavy
return (target > 9 * d) ? 0 : table[d][target]; // use look-up table
}
function decimalDigits(n) {
var array = [];
do {array.push(n % 10);
n = Math.floor(n / 10);
} while (n);
return array;
}
}
document.write("0 → 100,000,000 = " + countHeavy(0, 100000000, 7) + "<br>");
document.write("782 → 4321 = " + countHeavy(782, 4321, 7) + "<br>");
document.write("782 → 4321 = " + countHeavy(782, 4321, 5) + " (weight: 5)");

I really liked the post of #m69 so I wrote implementation inspired by it. The table creation is not that elegant, but works. For n+1 digits long integer I sum (at most) 10 values from n digits long integer, one for every digit 0-9.
I use this simplification to avoid arbitrary range calculation:
countHeavy(A, B) = countHeavy(0, B) - countHeavy(0, A-1)
The result is calculated in two loops. One for numbers shorter than the given number and one for the rest. I was not able to merge them easily. getResultis just lookup into the tablewith range checking, the rest of the code should be quite obvious.
public class HeavyNumbers {
private static int maxDigits = String.valueOf(Long.MAX_VALUE).length();
private int[][] table = null;
public HeavyNumbers(){
table = new int[maxDigits + 1][];
table[0] = new int[]{1};
for (int s = 1; s < maxDigits + 1; ++s) {
table[s] = new int[s * 9 + 1];
for (int k = 0; k < table[s].length; ++k) {
for (int d = 0; d < 10; ++d) {
if (table[s - 1].length > k - d) {
table[s][k] += table[s - 1][Math.max(0, k - d)];
}
}
}
}
}
private int[] getNumberAsArray(long number) {
int[] tmp = new int[maxDigits];
int cnt = 0;
while (number != 0) {
int remainder = (int) (number % 10);
tmp[cnt++] = remainder;
number = number / 10;
}
int[] ret = new int[cnt];
for (int i = 0; i < cnt; ++i) {
ret[i] = tmp[i];
}
return ret;
}
private int getResult(int[] sum, int digits, int fixDigitSum, int heavyThreshold) {
int target = heavyThreshold * digits - fixDigitSum + 1;
if (target < sum.length) {
return sum[Math.max(0, target)];
}
return 0;
}
public int getHeavyNumbersCount(long toNumberIncl, int heavyThreshold) {
if (toNumberIncl <= 0) return 0;
int[] numberAsArray = getNumberAsArray(toNumberIncl);
int res = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < numberAsArray.length - 1; ++i) {
for (int d = 1; d < 10; ++d) {
res += getResult(table[i], i + 1, d, heavyThreshold);
}
}
int fixDigitSum = 0;
int fromDigit = 1;
for (int i = numberAsArray.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
int toDigit = numberAsArray[i];
if (i == 0) {
toDigit++;
}
for (int d = fromDigit; d < toDigit; ++d) {
res += getResult(table[i], numberAsArray.length, fixDigitSum + d, heavyThreshold);
}
fixDigitSum += numberAsArray[i];
fromDigit = 0;
}
return res;
}
public int getHeavyNumbersCount(long fromIncl, long toIncl, int heavyThreshold) {
return getHeavyNumbersCount(toIncl, heavyThreshold) -
getHeavyNumbersCount(fromIncl - 1, heavyThreshold);
}
}
It is used like this:
HeavyNumbers h = new HeavyNumbers();
System.out.println( h.getHeavyNumbersCount(100000000,7));
prints out 569484, the repeated calculation time without initialization of the table is under 1us

I looked at the problem differently than you did. My perception is that the problem is based on the base-10 representation of a number, so the first thing you should do is to put the number into a base-10 representation. There may be a nicer way of doing it, but Java Strings represent Integers in base-10, so I used those. It's actually pretty fast to turn a single character into an integer, so this doesn't really cost much time.
Most importantly, your calculations in this matter never need to use division or floats. The problem is, at its core, about integers only. Do all the digits (integers) in the number (integer) add up to a value greater than or equal to seven (integer) times the number of digits (integer)?
Caveat - I don't claim that this is the fastest possible way of doing it, but this is probably faster than your original approach.
Here is my code:
package heavyNum;
public class HeavyNum
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HeavyNum hn = new HeavyNum();
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
hn.countHeavy(100000000, 1);
long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Time elapsed: "+(endTime- startTime));
}
private void countHeavy(int A, int B)
{
int heavyFound = 0;
for(int i = B+1; i < A; i++)
{
if(isHeavy(i))
heavyFound++;
}
System.out.println("Found "+heavyFound+" heavy numbers");
}
private boolean isHeavy(int i)
{
String asString = Integer.valueOf(i).toString();
int length = asString.length();
int dividingLine = length * 7, currTotal = 0, counter = 0;
while(counter < length)
{
currTotal += Character.getNumericValue(asString.charAt(counter++));
}
return currTotal > dividingLine;
}
}
Credit goes to this SO Question for how I get the number of digits in an integer and this SO Question for how to quickly convert characters to integers in java
Running on a powerful computer with no debugger for numbers between one and 100,000,000 resulted in this output:
Found 569484 heavy numbers
Time elapsed: 6985
EDIT: I initially was looking for numbers whose digits were greater than or equal to 7x the number of digits. I previously had results of 843,453 numbers in 7025 milliseconds.

Here's a pretty barebones recursion with memoization that enumerates the digit possibilities one by one for a fixed-digit number. You may be able to set A and B by controlling the range of i when calculating the corresponding number of digits.
Seems pretty fast (see the result for 20 digits).
JavaScript code:
var hash = {}
function f(k,soFar,count){
if (k == 0){
return 1;
}
var key = [k,soFar].join(",");
if (hash[key]){
return hash[key];
}
var res = 0;
for (var i=Math.max(count==0?1:0,7*(k+count)+1-soFar-9*(k-1)); i<=9; i++){
res += f(k-1,soFar+i,count+1);
}
return hash[key] = res;
}
// Output:
console.log(f(3,0,0)); // 56
hash = {};
console.log(f(6,0,0)); // 12313
hash = {};
console.log(f(20,0,0)); // 2224550892070475

You can indeed use strings to get the number of digits and then add the values of the individual digits to see if their sum > 7 * length, as Jeutnarg seems to do. I took his code and added my own, simple isHeavyRV(int):
private boolean isHeavyRV(int i)
{
int sum = 0, count = 0;
while (i > 0)
{
sum += i % 10;
count++;
i = i / 10;
}
return sum >= count * 7;
}
Now, instead of
if(isHeavy(i))
I tried
if(isHeavyRV(i))
I actually first tested his implementation of isHeavy(), using strings, and that ran in 12388 milliseconds on my machine (an older iMac), and it found 843453 heavy numbers.
Using my implementation, I found exactly the same number of heavy numbers, but in a time of a mere 5416 milliseconds.
Strings may be fast, but they can't beat a simple loop doing basically what Integer.toString(i, 10) does as well, but without the string detour.

When you add 1 to a number, you are incrementing one digit, and changing all the smaller digits to zero. If incrementing changes from a heavy to a non-heavy number, its because too many low-order digits were zeroed. In this case, it's pretty easy to find the next heavy number without checking all the numbers in between:
public class CountHeavy
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
int numHeavy = countHeavy(1, 100000000);
long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.printf("Found %d heavy numbers between 1 and 100000000\n", numHeavy);
System.out.println("Time elapsed: "+(endTime- startTime)+" ms");
}
static int countHeavy(int from, int to)
{
int numdigits=1;
int maxatdigits=9;
int numFound = 0;
if (from<1)
{
from=1;
}
for(int i = from; i < to;)
{
//keep track of number of digits in i
while (i > maxatdigits)
{
long newmax = 10L*maxatdigits+9;
maxatdigits = (int)Math.min(Integer.MAX_VALUE, newmax);
++numdigits;
}
//get sum of digits
int digitsum=0;
for(int digits=i;digits>0;digits/=10)
{
digitsum+=(digits%10);
}
//calculate a step size that increments the first non-zero digit
int step=1;
int stepzeros=0;
while(step <= (Integer.MAX_VALUE/10) && to-i >= step*10 && i%(step*10) == 0)
{
step*=10;
stepzeros+=1;
}
//step is a 1 followed stepzeros zeros
//how much is our sum too small by?
int need = numdigits*7+1 - digitsum;
if (need <= 0)
{
//already have enough. All the numbers between i and i+step are heavy
numFound+=step;
}
else if (need <= stepzeros*9)
{
//increment to the smallest possible heavy number. This puts all the
//needed sum in the lowest-order digits
step = need%9;
for(;need >= 9;need-=9)
{
step = step*10+9;
}
}
//else there are no heavy numbers between i and i+step
i+=step;
}
return numFound;
}
}
Found 569484 heavy numbers between 1 and 100000000
Time elapsed: 31 ms
Note that the answer is different from #JeutNarg's, because you asked for average > 7, not average >= 7.

Project Euler #5 in Java: stuck in the end of program

I am trying to get the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20. But somehow I am stuck in the end of the program. My answer is coming 40 which is wrong. Here is my code:
public class Lessons {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int n;
int s = 0;
for (n = 21; n > 0; n++)
{
for (int m = 1; m <= 20; m++)
{
s = n % m;
}
if (s == 0)
{
System.out.println(n);
break;
}
}
}
}
Any helps???

You're effectively only ever checking whether n%20 == 0. This loop:
for (int m = 1; m <= 20; m++) {
s = n % m;
}
does run for m from 1 to 20, but you always overwrite s and never do anything with the value before resetting it the next time through the loop. You need to check the result of n % m for each iteration of the loop, perhaps like:
for (n = 21; n > 0; n++) {
bool divisibleByAll = true;
for (int m = 1; m <= 20; m++) {
s = n % m;
if(s != 0) {
divisibleByAll = false;
break; //don't bother checking the rest
}
}
if (divisibleByAll) {
System.out.println(n);
break;
}
}

another option with brute force and modulo rest-classification
this problem can be solved with a simple common modulo rest class characteristrics.
look at the numbers from 1 to 20 and divide it into two groups and find some unique common attributes between them.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
we are building division with the same reminder members
1 divides all
2 divide 4,8 -->>8 important
3 divide 6,9 but 6 doesnt divide 9 evenly--> 6,9
5 divide 10-->> 10 important
that leaves us with 6,7,8,9,10 to check if there is any number from 1 that can divide this with rest 0.
the trick is if 2,4,8 divides a number let say 16 with the same reminder then we dont have to check if 2,4 divides 16, we check only 8.
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
hier were can do the same from about with factors of the numbers from above and we will be left with
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
NB: we know that the last number that has to divide the number is 20,
so that mean either the solution will be a number ending with 0 or is
one of the factors of 20, so we build factors of 20 and check if 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 can divide it then we are done.
int start = 20;
while (start % 11 != 0 || start % 12 != 0 | start % 13 != 0 || start % 14 != 0 ||
start % 15 != 0 || start % 16 != 0 || start % 17 != 0 || start % 18 != 0 || start % 19 != 0 )
{
start += 20;
}
System.out.println("The smallest number is: "+start);
The same idea applies analog to the first deduction i made to make the
problem seems smaller.
//smallest number divisible by all numbers from 1 to 10
int a = 10;
while (a % 6 != 0 || a % 7 != 0 | a % 8 != 0 || a % 9 != 0 )
{
a += 10;
}
System.out.println("The smallest number is: "+a);
//smallest number divisible by all numbers from 1 to 5
int i = 5;
while (i % 3 != 0 || i % 4 != 0)
{
i += 5;
}
System.out.println("The smallest number is: "+ i);

long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
for ( int i = 2520; ; i += 2520 ){
if ( i % 11 == 0 &&
i % 12 == 0 &&
i % 13 == 0 &&
i % 14 == 0 &&
i % 15 == 0 &&
i % 16 == 0 &&
i % 17 == 0 &&
i % 18 == 0 &&
i % 19 == 0 &&
i % 20 == 0 ){
long stopTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Answer: " + i + "\nIt took "+(stopTime - startTime) + " milliseconds");
break;
}
}
This takes 1 - 2 milliseconds on average. I know its a lame ass solution but hey it works.

Check whether the number is divisible by both 3 and 7, or by neither of them

Got my head in spaghetti mode.
Here is the question:
(Check a number) Write a program that prompts the user to enter an integer and checks whether the number is divisible by both 3 and 7, or by neither of them, or by just one of them. Here are some sample runs for inputs, 9,21, and 25.
9 is divisible by 3 or 7, but not both
21 is divisible by both 3 and 7
25 is not divisible by either 3 or 7/
This is what I have so far. I know I'm wrong but do not think I am too far from solving the question.
public class Quest12 {
/**
* #param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter a number: ");
int i = scan.nextInt();
if (i % 3 == 0 ^ 7 == 0) {
System.out.println(i + " is divisible by 3 or 7. ");
}
else if (i % 3 == 0 || 7 == 0)
{
System.out.println(i + " is divisble by either 3 or 7. but not both ");
}
if (i % 3 == 0 && 7 == 0)
{
System.out.println(i + " is divisble by both 3 and 7 ");
}
}
}

I would perform each modulus and store the result(s) in boolean variables. Like,
boolean mod3 = i % 3 == 0;
boolean mod7 = i % 7 == 0;
if (mod3 && mod7) {
System.out.printf("%d is divisible by 3 and 7.%n", i);
} else if (mod3 || mod7) {
System.out.printf("%d is divisible by 3 or 7 (but not both).%n", i);
} else {
System.out.printf("%d is not divisible by 3 or 7.%n", i);
}

You cannot use the XOR operator ^ or the other operators || and && to combine 2 conditions like that, like we would in English. i is a multiple of 3 and 7 is not translated to code as i % 3 == 0 && 7 == 0. You must write out each separate condition explicitly.
if ((i % 3 == 0) ^ (i % 7 == 0)) {
and
else if ((i % 3 == 0) || (i % 7 == 0))
and
if ((i % 3 == 0) && (i % 7 == 0)
The XOR operator ^ is true if exactly one of its operands is true. So, the first condition represents "either 3 or 7 but not both". Next, I would do the && case in the else if, for "divisible by both 3 and 7", with an else for "divisible by neither 3 nor 7".

Java Loop to go Through Numbers and Adding 5

I am writing Java code that needs to print these numbers: "0 5 10 3 8 1 6 11 4 9 2 7" in that order. I am new to Java, and am not very good at Loops yet. I am finding the points of a 12 point star, starting at 0, and trying to find the points that need to be touched by a line to make the star..
How do I do a loop that starts at 0, and adds 5 to each number.. so 0 + 5 = 5, 5+5=10, 10+5=3 (this is where my problem is.. How do I make it go back from 11 to 0?
I know this might seem confusing... or it might be extremely easy.. but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Increment by 5 until you pass 60, display the result of modulo 12. Something like,
for (int i = 0; i < 60; i += 5) {
System.out.println(i % 12);
}

This is called modulus, and java has the modulo operator % which gives the remainder of integer division.
15 / 12 == 1
15 % 12 == 3
as
(15 / 12) * 12 + (15 % 12) == 15
See the wikipedia.
Of course in your case you could also do
n += 5;
if (n >= 12) {
n -= 12;
}
instead of using modulo:
n = (n + 5) % 12;

Just iterate from 0 to 12, multiplying your number by 5, and applying modulus 12:
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
System.out.println(i * 5 % 12);
}

I believe the operator you are looking for is the modulus operator. The modulus gives you the remainder from a division problem. In this case you are using 12 as the denominator.
0 + 5 % 12 = 5 (0, remainder 5)
5 + 5 % 12 = 10 (0, remainder 10)
10 + 5 % 12 = 3 (1, remainder 3)
15 + 5 % 12 = 8 (1, remainder 8)
20 + 5 % 12 = 1 (2, remainder 1)

try this :
for(int i=0; ; i = (i+5)%12){
System.out.println(i);
if(i==7)break;
}