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#ProjectEuler/Python/Problem12.py
#Matthew Ellison
# Created: 01-31-19
#Modified: 03-28-19
#What is the value of the first triangle number to have over five hundred divisors?
#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
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"""
from Stopwatch import Stopwatch
from Algorithms import getDivisors
__goalDivisors = 500 #The number of divisors a number needs to reach
def Problem12():
#Setup the variables
triangularNumber = 1 #Holds the triangular numbers
nextNumber = 2 #The next number to be added to the triangular number
foundNumber = False #A flag for when the triangular number has over __goalDivisors divisors
#Start at the first triangular number and loop around, moving to the next, until you find one with the appropriate number of divisors
while((not foundNumber) and (triangularNumber > 0)): #Make sure you haven't caused an overflow and made trianularNumber negative
#See how many divisors this triangular number has
divisors = getDivisors(triangularNumber)
#If it did have enough raise a flag to stop the loop
if(len(divisors) > __goalDivisors):
foundNumber = True
else:
triangularNumber += nextNumber #Add the next number to continue the triangular sequence
nextNumber += 1 #Advance to the next number in the triangular sequence
#Print the results
if(triangularNumber <= 0):
print("There was an error. Could not find a triangular number with " + str(__goalDivisors) + " divisors before overflow")
else:
print("The first triangular number with more than " + str(__goalDivisors) + " divisors is " + str(triangularNumber))
#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
Problem12() #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 first triangular number with more than 500 divisors is 76576500
It took 2.898 seconds to run this algorithm
"""