//ProjectEuler/Java/Problem5.java //Matthew Ellison // Created: 03-01-19 //Modified: 03-28-19 //What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20? //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 java.util.ArrayList; public class Problem5{ public static void main(String[] argv){ Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch(); //So you can time the code //Start the timer timer.start(); //Start at 20 because it must at least be divisible by 20. Increment by 2 because it must be an even number to be divisible by 2 Boolean numFound = false; Integer currentNum = 20; while((currentNum > 0) && (!numFound)){ //Start by assuming you found the number (because we throw a flag if we didn't find it) numFound = true; //Step through every number from 1-20 seeing if the current number is divisible by it for(Integer divisor = 1;divisor <= 20;++divisor){ //If it is not divisible then throw a flag and start looking at the next number if((currentNum % divisor) != 0){ numFound = false; break; } } //If you didn't find the correct numbe then increment by 2 if(!numFound){ currentNum += 2; } } //Stop the timer timer.stop(); //Print the results System.out.println("The smallest positive number evenly divisibly by all number 1-20 is " + currentNum.toString()); System.out.println("It took " + timer.getStr() + " to run this algorithm"); } } /* Results: The smallest positive number evenly divisibly by all number 1-20 is 232792560 It took 1.987 seconds to run this algorithm */