#ProjectEuler/Python/Problem1.py #Matthew Ellison # Created: 01-26-19 #Modified: 03-28-19 #What is the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 that are less than 1000 #Unless otherwise listed, all of my non-standard imports can be gotten from my pyClasses repository at https://bitbucket.org/Mattrixwv/pyClasses """ 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 . """ from Stopwatch import Stopwatch def Problem1(): #Setup your variables fullSum = 0 #Holds the sum of all the correct numbers #Start at 3 and start counting up, checking if any of the numbers are divisible by 3 or 5 #This method skips the problem of numbers that are divisible by both, like 15, being added twice num = 3 while(num < 1000): if((num % 3) == 0): #3 Will be triggered more often, putting it first makes the algorithm more efficient fullSum += num elif((num % 5) == 0): fullSum += num num += 1 #Print the results print("The sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 is " + str(fullSum)) #If you are running this file, automatically start the correct function if(__name__ == "__main__"): timer = Stopwatch() #Used to determine the algorithm's run time timer.start() #Start the timer Problem1() #Call the function that answers the problem timer.stop() #Stop the timer #Print the results of the timer print("It took " + timer.getString() + " to run this algorithm") """Results: The sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 is 233168 It took 114.142 microseconds to run this algorithm """