#ProjectEuler/Python/Problem33.py #Matthew Ellison # Created: 02-07-21 #Modified: 07-24-21 """ The fraction 49/98 is a curious fraction, as an inexperienced mathematician in attempting to simplify it may incorrectly believe that 49/98 = 4/8, which is correct, is obtained by cancelling the 9s We shall consider fractions like, 30/50 = 3/5, to be trivial examples There are exactly four non-trivial examples of this type of fraction, less than one in value, and containing two digits in the numerator and denominator If the product of these four fractions is given in its lowest common terms, find the value of the denominator """ #Unless otherwise listed, all of my non-standard imports can be gotten from my pyClasses repository at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/pyClasses """ 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 . """ from Problems.Problem import Problem import ArrayAlgorithms class Problem33(Problem): #Variables #Static variables __minNumerator = 10 __maxNumerator = 98 __minDenominator = 11 __maxDenominator = 99 #Instance variables __numerators = [] __denominators = [] prodDenominator = 1 #Functions #Constructor def __init__(self) -> None: super().__init__("If the product of these four fractions is given in its lowest common terms, find the value of the denominator") #Operational Functions #Solve the problem def solve(self) -> None: #If the problem has already been solved do nothing and end the function if(self.solved): return #Start the timer self.timer.start() #Search every possible numerator/denominator pair for denominator in range(self.__minDenominator, self.__maxDenominator + 1): for numerator in range(self.__minNumerator, denominator): denom = str(denominator) num = str(numerator) tempNum = 0 tempDenom = 1 #Check that this isn't a trivial example if((num[1] == '0') and (denom[1] == '0')): continue #Remove the offending digits if they exist elif(num[0] == denom[0]): tempNum = int(num[1]) tempDenom = int(denom[1]) elif(num[0] == denom[1]): tempNum = int(num[1]) tempDenom = int(denom[0]) elif(num[1] == denom[0]): tempNum = int(num[0]) tempDenom = int(denom[1]) elif(num[1] == denom[1]): tempNum = int(num[0]) tempDenom = int(denom[0]) if(tempDenom == 0): continue #Test if the new fraction is the same as the old one if((float(tempNum) / float(tempDenom)) == (float(numerator) / float(denominator))): self.__numerators.append(numerator) self.__denominators.append(denominator) #Get the product of the numbers numProd = ArrayAlgorithms.prod(self.__numerators) denomProd = ArrayAlgorithms.prod(self.__denominators) #Get the gcd to reduce to lowest terms gcd = ArrayAlgorithms.gcd(numProd, denomProd) #Save the denominator self.prodDenominator = int(denomProd / gcd) #Stop the timer self.timer.stop() #Throw a flag to show the problem is solved self.solved = True #Reset the problem so it can be run again def reset(self) -> None: super().reset() self.__numerators.clear() self.__denominators.clear() #Gets #Returns the result of solving the problem def getResult(self) -> str: self.solvedCheck("result") return f"The denominator of the product is {self.prodDenominator}" #Returns the list of numerators def getNumerators(self) -> list: self.solvedCheck("list of numerators") return self.__numerators #Returns the list of denominators def getDenominators(self) -> list: self.solvedCheck("list of denominators") return self.__denominator #Returns the answer to the question def getProdDenominator(self) -> int: self.solvedCheck("denominator") return self.prodDenominator """Results: The denominator of the product is 100 It took an average of 5.130 milliseconds to run this problem through 100 iterations """