Project Euler Part 3

August 15, 2021

Welcome back!

Lets continuing our journey through the Euler Project.

8th problem:

By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13.

What is the 10 001st prime number?

So how do we determine if a number is a prime? 🤔

We know a number n is prime number if its a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers.

• So we create a list called divisors from 2 to the square root (highest product number to be a prime) of n. (clojure range came in handy here!)
• We can map this divisors list into function that generates a new list remainders where we get the remainder of n with every possible divisor.
• We return true if non (not-any?) of the remainders list is 0.

Let us create a function that generates a list of n amount of primes. and just returns the nth prime number.

Ok lets break this apart into smaller bites.

• Lets start with n as 2 and move our way upwards.
• We ask if the n is prime? if it is we add it to the list primes.
• We stop iterating over n when we’ve found the nth prime.

Problem 7th

This reminded me a lot of our Bowling Kata, the way we add the bonus but in this we multiply bonuses.

I tackled this problem by first making a list of digits in the order the problem is providing them. After creating the list I just loop over the list by takeing n next numbers and checking if the prodcut of them is bigger than the previous. If the product is bigger than the previous product then we call the recursion loop again with the new biggest product and droping the first digit from the list. Otherwise, we just continue until we evaluated all the products in the list and return the biggest-product!

Problem 10

The sum of the primes below 10 is 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17.

Find the sum of all the primes below two million.

Ha! another prime numbers problem! Good we have some nice functions from previous problems. I’m going to leverage my prime list generation function here and just loop over the generation until the number reaches 2 million. After that I’ll just apply + to the list and solve the problem! EZ!

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Written by Edgardo Carreras.