--ProjectEuler/ProjectEulerLua/Problem36.lua --Matthew Ellison -- Created: 06-29-21 --Modified: 06-29-21 --Find the sum of all numbers, less than one million, which are palindromic in base 10 and base 2. --All of my requires, unless otherwise listed, can be found at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/luaClasses --[[ Copyright (C) 2021 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" require "Algorithms" --Setup the variables local timer = Stopwatch:create(); local MAX_NUM = 999999; --The largest number that will be checked local palindromes = {}; --All numbers that are palindromes in base 10 and 2 local sum = 0; --The sum of all elements in the list of palindromes --Start the timer timer:start(); --Start with 1, check if it is a palindrome in base 10 and 2, and continue to MAX_NUM for num = 1, MAX_NUM do --Check if num is a palindrome if(isPalindrome(tostring(num))) then --Convert num to base 2 and see if that is a palindrome local binNum = toBin(num); if(isPalindrome(binNum)) then --Add num to the list of palindromes table.insert(palindromes, num); end end end --Get the sum of all palindromes in the list sum = getSum(palindromes); --Stop the timer timer:stop(); --Print the results io.write("The sum of all base 10 and base 2 palindromic numbers < " .. MAX_NUM .. " is " .. sum .. "\n"); io.write("It took " .. timer:getString() .. " to run this algorithm\n"); --[[ Results: The sum of all base 10 and base 2 palindromic numbers < 999999 is 872187 It took 377.000 milliseconds to run this algorithm ]]