Well after a hectic week of work and studying I eventually had some me time… today I thought I would attempt Euler Problem 16.
The Problem
215 = 32768 and the sum of its digits is 3 + 2 + 7 + 6 + 8 = 26.
What is the sum of the digits of the number 21000?
The Solution
So I thought I would get to concerned about length of code, but rather focus on implementing several practices that I have learnt in the last couple of weeks, namely tail recursive functions and composite functions…
I initially broke the solution up into two parts, a function that calculated the power and then a function that parsed that result and added the numbers together (sum them).
let PowerN n:bigint = let rec innerPowerN(n:bigint, act:bigint) = match n with | v when v<1I -> act | _ -> innerPowerN((n-1I), act*2I) innerPowerN (n, 1I) When I came to summing the digits, I hit a bit of a road block, but then saw a nice implementation of Stack Overflow for converting a character to an value.
///
/// Converts a value to a bigint digit
///
let Value c =
let table = [
‘1’, 1I ; ‘2’, 2I ; ‘3’, 3I
‘4’, 4I ; ‘5’, 5I ; ‘6’, 6I
‘7’, 7I ; ‘8’, 8I ; ‘9’, 9I
‘0’, 0I ]
let dictionary = dict table
match dictionary.TryGetValue(c) with
| true, v -> v
| _ -> failwith (sprintf "letter '%c' was not in lookup table" c)
//
// Sum all the digits in a bigint
//
let SumDigits(x:bigint) =
x.ToString().ToCharArray() |> Seq.sumBy Value
Finally using composite functions I put it all together…
let Euler16 = PowerN » SumDigits
The entire code looked like the following…
///
/// Converts a value to a bigint digit
///
let Value c =
let table = [
‘1’, 1I ; ‘2’, 2I ; ‘3’, 3I
‘4’, 4I ; ‘5’, 5I ; ‘6’, 6I
‘7’, 7I ; ‘8’, 8I ; ‘9’, 9I
‘0’, 0I ]
let dictionary = dict table
match dictionary.TryGetValue(c) with
| true, v -> v
| _ -> failwith (sprintf "letter '%c' was not in lookup table" c)
//
// Sum all the digits in a bigint
//
let SumDigits(x:bigint) =
x.ToString().ToCharArray() |> Seq.sumBy Value
let PowerN n:bigint = let rec innerPowerN(n:bigint, act:bigint) = match n with | v when v<1I -> act | _ -> innerPowerN((n-1I), act*2I) innerPowerN (n, 1I)
let Euler16 = PowerN » SumDigits
While I am pretty sure there is a nicer way to implement “Value”, other than that I am pretty happy with the solution although I am sure this can be solved in a one liner as well…
