--ProjectEuler/lua/Problem1.lua --Matthew Ellison -- Created: 02-01-19 --Modified: 03-28-19 --The sum of the even Fibonacci numbers less than 4,000,000 --All of my requires, unless otherwise listed, can be found at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/luaClasses --[[ 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 . ]] require "Stopwatch" timer = Stopwatch:create(); timer:start(); --Setup the variables TOP_NUM = 4000000; --The highest looked for Fibonacci numbers fibSum = 0; --Holds the sum of the Fibonacci numbers fibNums = {1, 1, 2}; --An array to keep track of the Fibonacci numbers --Loop to generate the Fibonacci numbers cnt = 2; --A counter to hold the location in the array of the currently working Fibonacci number fibNums[(cnt % 3) + 1] = fibNums[((cnt - 1) % 3) + 1] + fibNums[((cnt - 2) % 3) + 1]; while(fibNums[(cnt % 3) + 1] < TOP_NUM) do --If the number is even add it to the sum, otherwise ignore it if((fibNums[(cnt % 3) + 1] % 2) == 0) then fibSum = fibSum + fibNums[(cnt % 3) + 1]; end --Generate the next Fibonacci number in the sequence cnt = cnt + 1 fibNums[(cnt % 3) + 1] = fibNums[((cnt - 1) % 3) + 1] + fibNums[((cnt - 2) % 3) + 1]; end timer:stop(); --Print the results print("The sum of all even Fibonacci numbers less than " .. TOP_NUM .. " is " .. fibSum); print("It took " .. timer:getMicroseconds() .. " microseconds to run this algorithm"); --[[Results: The sum of all even Fibonacci numbers less than 4000000 is 4613732 It took 56 microseconds to run this algorithm ]]