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#ProjectEuler/Python/Problem4.py
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#Matthew Ellison
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# Created: 01-28-19
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#Modified: 03-28-19
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#Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers
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#Unless otherwise listed, all of my non-standard imports can be gotten from my pyClasses repository at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/pyClasses
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"""
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Copyright (C) 2019 Matthew Ellison
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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"""
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from Stopwatch import Stopwatch
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__lowestNum = 100
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__highestNum = 1000
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def Problem4():
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#Setup the variables
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palindromes = [] #Holds all of the palindromes
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currentNum = 0 #Holds the product of the two numbers I am currently working on
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#Loop through every number from __lowestNum to __highestNum twice and multiply every number together
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for num1 in range(__lowestNum, __highestNum + 1):
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for num2 in range(num1, __highestNum + 1): #You can start at num1 because 100 * 101 == 101 * 100
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currentNum = num1 * num2
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#If the number is a palindrome add it to the list of palindromes, otherwise ignore it
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#Using strings makes it easier to determine a palindrome
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if(str(currentNum) == str(currentNum)[::-1]):
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palindromes.append(currentNum)
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#Sort the palindromes so that the last element is the largest
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palindromes.sort()
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#Print the results
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print("The largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers is " + str(palindromes[len(palindromes) - 1]))
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#If you are running this file, automatically start the correct function
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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timer = Stopwatch() #Determines the algorithm's run time
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timer.start() #Start the timer
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Problem4() #Call the function that answers the question
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timer.stop() #Stop the timer
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#Print the results of the timer
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print("It took " + timer.getString() + " to run this algorithm")
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"""Results:
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The largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers is 906609
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It took 177.314 milliseconds to run this algorithm
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"""
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