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--ProjectEUler/lua/Problem12.lua
--Matthew Ellison
-- Created: 02-07-19
--Modified: 03-28-19
--What is the value of the first triangle number to have over five hundred divisors?
--All of my requires, unless otherwise listed, can be found at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/luaClasses
--[[
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]]
require "Stopwatch"
require "Algorithms"
timer = Stopwatch:create();
timer:start();
GOAL_DIVISORS = 500;
local triangularNumber = 1;
local nextNumber = 2;
local foundNumber = false;
local divisors = {};
while((not foundNumber) and (triangularNumber > 0)) do
--See how many divisors this triangular number has
divisors = getDivisors(triangularNumber);
--If it has more than GOAL_DIVISORS raise a flag to stop the loop
if(#divisors > GOAL_DIVISORS) then
foundNumber = true;
else
triangularNumber = triangularNumber + nextNumber; --Add the next number to continue the triangular sequence
nextNumber = nextNumber + 1; --Advance to the next number for the triangular sequence
end
end
timer:stop();
--Print the results
if(foundNumber) then
print("The first triangular number with more than " .. GOAL_DIVISORS .. " divisors is " .. triangularNumber);
else
print("There was an error. Could not find a triangular number with " .. GOAL_DIVISORS .. " divisors before overflow");
end
print("It took " .. timer:getSeconds() .. " seconds to run this algorithm");
--[[Results
The first triangular number with more than 500divisors is 76576500
It took 1.498547 seconds to run this algorithm
]]