#ProjectEulter/Python/Project5.py #Matthew Ellison # Created: 01-28-19 #Modified: 10-30-20 #What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20? #Unless otherwise listed, all of my non-standard imports can be gotten from my pyClasses repository at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/pyClasses """ Copyright (C) 2020 Matthew Ellison This program is free software: it 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 itr 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. it should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . """ from Problems.Problem import Problem from Unsolved import Unsolved class Problem5(Problem): #Variables __startDivisor = 1 __stopDivisor = 20 #Functions #Constructor def __init__(self): super().__init__("What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20?") self.smallestNum = 0 #Operational functions #Solve the problem def solve(self): #If the problem has already been solved do nothing and end the function if(self.solved): return #Start the timer self.timer.start() #Start at 20 and loop through all numbers until it find one that works #It must be at least 20 to be divisible by 20 numFound = False #A flag for finding the divisible number currentNum = 20 #The number that it are currently checking against while((currentNum > 0) and (not numFound)): #Set that it found the number to true, because it sets this flag when it doesn't find it numFound = True #See if the current number is divisible by all numbers from 1 to 20 for divisor in range(self.__startDivisor, self.__stopDivisor + 1): #If it is not set a flag to move to the next possible number if((currentNum % divisor) != 0): numFound = False break #Increment the number by 2 to check the next one if it didn't find the number if(not numFound): currentNum += 2 #Set the smallest number to the number we just found self.smallestNum = currentNum #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): super().reset() self.smallestNum = 0 #Gets #Returns the result of solving the problem def getResult(self): #If the problem hasn't been solved throw an exception if(not self.solved): raise Unsolved("You must solve the problem before you can see the result") return f"The smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all numbers 1-20 is {self.smallestNum}" #Returns the requested number def getNumber(self) -> int: #If the problem hasn't been solved throw an exceptions if(not self.solved): raise Unsolved("You must solve the problem before you can get the requested number") return self.smallestNum """Results: The smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all numbers 1-20 is 232792560 It took an average of 54.833 seconds to run this problem through 100 iterations """