--ProjectEuler/ProjectEulerLua/Problem34.lua --Matthew Ellison -- Created: 06-01-21 --Modified; 06-01-21 --Find the sum of all numbers which are equal to the sum of the factorial of their digits --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 = 1499999; --The largest num that can be the sum of its own digits local numberFactorials = {}; --Holds the pre-computed factorials of the numbers 0-9 local sum = 0; --Holds the sum of all numbers equal to the sum of their digit's factorials --Start the timer timer:start(); --Pre-compute the possible factorials from 0! to 9! for cnt = 0, 9 do numberFactorials[cnt] = factorial(cnt); end --Run through all possible numbers from 3-MAX_NUM and see if they equal the sum of their digit's factorials for cnt = 3, MAX_NUM do --Split the number into its digits and add each one to the sum local numString = tostring(cnt); local currentSum = 0; for numCnt = 1, string.len(numString) do currentSum = currentSum + numberFactorials[tonumber(string.sub(numString, numCnt, numCnt))]; end --If the number is equal to the sum add the sum to the running sum if(currentSum == cnt) then sum = sum + currentSum; end end --Stop the timer timer:stop(); --Print the results io.write("The sum of all numbers that are the sum of their digit's factorials is " .. sum .. "\n"); io.write("It took " .. timer:getString() .. " to run this algorithm\n"); --[[ Results: The sum of all numbers that are the sum of their digit's factorials is 40730 It took 1.308 seconds to run this algorithm ]]