#ProjectEuler/Python/Problem6.py #Matthew Ellison # Created: 01-28-19 #Modified: 03-28-19 #Find the difference between the sum of the squares of the first one hundred natural numbers and the square of the sum #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 #To time the algorithm def Problem6(): #Setup the variables sumOfSquares = 0 #Holds the sum of the square of the numbers squareOfSum = 0 #Holds the square of the sum of the numbers #Run through all numbers from 1-100 and add them to the approriate sums for num in range(1, 101): sumOfSquares += num * num #Get the sum of the squares of the first 100 natural numbers squareOfSum += num #Get the sum of the first 100 natural numbers so you can square it later #Square the normal sum squareOfSum *= squareOfSum #Print the result print("The difference between the sum of the squares and the square of the sum of the numbers 1-100 is " + str(abs(sumOfSquares - squareOfSum))) #If you are running this file, automatically start the correct function if __name__ == '__main__': timer = Stopwatch() #Determines the algorithm's run time timer.start() #Start the timer Problem6() #Call the function that answers the question timer.stop() #Stop the timer #Print the results of the timer print("It took " + timer.getString() + " to run this algorithm") """Results: The difference between the sum of the squares and the square of the sum of the numbers 1-100 is 25164150 It took 24.384 microseconds to run this algorithm """