Today I had a quick bash at problem 6. To me this has been the easiest of the problems so far. It is the first time though that I got to use the Seq.Fold function which was good to get exposure to. I am not to happy with my code though, I can’t explain it, but it just seems a bit messy…
Anyhow, I look forward to feedback from everyone in the F# community on their approaches.
Problem
The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is,
12 + 22 + … + 102 = 385 The square of the sum of the first ten natural numbers is,
(1 + 2 + … + 10)2 = 552 = 3025 Hence the difference between the sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers and the square of the sum is 3025 385 = 2640.
Find the difference between the sum of the squares of the first one hundred natural numbers and the square of the sum.
My Solution
let Square n = n*n
let Problem6 n = let myseq = seq{1..n} let SumOfSquares n = myseq |> Seq.fold(fun acc x -> acc+(Square x)) 0 let SquareOfSums n = Square(myseq |> Seq.sum) SquareOfSums(n) - SumOfSquares(n)
