//ProjectEuler/Java/Problem9.java //Matthew Ellison // Created: 03-02-19 //Modified: 03-28-19 //There exists exactly one Pythagorean triplet for which a + b + c = 1000. Find the product abc. //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; public class Problem9{ public static void main(String[] argv){ //Setup the variables Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch(); //To time the execution time of this algorithm Integer a = 1; //Holds the length of the first side Integer b = 0; //Holds the length of the second side Double c = 0D; //Holds the length of the hyp Boolean found = false; //A flag to show whether the solution has been found //Start the timer timer.start(); //Loop through all possible a's while((a < 1000) && !found){ b = a + 1; //b must be larger than a c = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(a, 2) + Math.pow(b, 2)); //Compute the hyp //Loop through all possible b's for this a while((a + b + c) < 1000){ ++b; c = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(a, 2) + Math.pow(b, 2)); } //If the sum == 1000 you found the number, otherwise go to the next possible a if((a + b + c) == 1000){ found = true; } else{ ++a; } } //Stop the timer timer.stop(); //Print the results if(found){ System.out.printf("The Pythagorean triplet is %d + %d + %d\n", a, b, c.intValue()); System.out.printf("The numbers' product is %d\n", a * b * c.intValue()); System.out.println("It took " + timer.getStr() + " to run this algorithm"); } else{ System.out.println("The number was not found!"); } } }