//ProjectEuler/Java/Problem27.java //Matthew Ellison // Created: 09-15-19 //Modified: 09-15-19 //Find the product of the coefficients, |a| < 1000 and |b| <= 1000, for the quadratic expression that produces the maximum number of primes for consecutive values of n, starting with n=0. //Unless otherwise listed all non-standard includes are my own creation and available from https://bibucket.org/Mattrixwv/JavaClasses /* Copyright (C) 2019 Matthew Ellison This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ import mattrixwv.Stopwatch; import mattrixwv.Algorithms; import java.util.ArrayList; public class Problem27{ private static Integer topA = 0; //The A for the most n's generated private static Integer topB = 0; //The B for the most n's generated private static Integer topN = 0; //The most n's generated private static ArrayList primes = Algorithms.getPrimes(12000); //A list of all primes that could possibly be generated with this formula public static void main(String[] args){ //Setup the variables Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch(); //Start the timer timer.start(); //Start with the lowest possible A and check all possibilities after that for(Integer a = -999;a <= 999;++a){ //Start with the lowest possible B and check all possibilities after that for(Integer b = -1000;b <=1000;++b){ //Start with n=0 and check the formula to see how many primes you can get get with concecutive n's Integer n = 0; Integer quadratic = (n * n) + (a * n) + b; while(Algorithms.isFound(primes, quadratic)){ ++n; quadratic = (n * n) + (a * n) + b; } --n; //Negate an n because the last formula failed //Set all the largest numbers if this created more primes than any other if(n > topN){ topN = n; topB = b; topA = a; } } } //Stop the timer timer.stop(); //Print the restuls System.out.printf("The greatest number of primes found is %d", topN); System.out.printf("\nIt was found with A = %d, B = %d", topA, topB); System.out.printf("\nThe product of A and B is %d\n", topA * topB); System.out.println("It took " + timer.getStr() + " to run this algorithm"); } } /* Results: The greatest number of primes found is 70 It was found with A = -61, B = 971 The product of A and B is -59231 It took 4.765 seconds to run this algorithm */