function [] = Problem30() %ProjectEuler/Octave/Problem30.m %Matthew Ellison % Created: 10-28-19 %Modified: 10-28-19 %Find the sum of all the numbers that can be written as the sum of the fifth powers of their digits. %{ 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 . %} %Setup the variables TOP_NUM = 1000000; %This is the largest number that will be check BOTTOM_NUM = 2; %Starts with 2 because 0 and 1 don't count POWER_RAISED = 5; %This is the power that the digits are raised to sumOfFifthNumbers = []; %This is an array of the numbers that are the sum of the fifth power of their digits %Start the timer startTime = clock(); %Start with the lowest number and increment until you reach the largest number for currentNum = BOTTOM_NUM : TOP_NUM printf("%d\n", currentNum) %Get the digits of the number digits = getDigits(currentNum); %Get the sum of the powers sumOfPowers = 0; for cnt = 1 : size(digits)(2) sumOfPowers += digits(cnt)^POWER_RAISED; end %Check if the sum of the powers is the same as the number %If it is add it to the list, otherwise continue to the next number if(sumOfPowers == currentNum) sumOfFifthNumbers(end + 1) = currentNum; end end %Stop the timer endTime = clock(); %Print the results printf("The sum of all the numbers that can be written as the sum of the fifth powers of their digits is %d\n", sum(sumOfFifthNumbers)) printf("It took %f seconds to run this algorithm\n", etime(endTime, startTime)) end %Returns an array with the individual digits of the number passed to it function [listOfDigits] = getDigits(num) listOfDigits = []; %This array holds the individual digits of num %The easiest way to get the individual digits of a number is by converting it to a string digits = num2str(num); %Start with the first digit, convert it to an integer, store it in the table, and move to the next digit for cnt = 1 : size(digits)(2) listOfDigits(end + 1) = str2num(substr(digits, cnt, 1)); end end %{ Results: The sum of all the numbers that can be written as the sum of the fifth powers of their digits is 443839 It took 1849.877525 seconds to run this algorithm %}