Project Euler/58
From charlesreid1
Problem Statement
This question asks about prime spirals.
If we form a spiral with the integers, we find that prime numbers tend to fall on the diagonals of this spiral with a higher density than elsewhere in the spiral. This question asks to find how long it takes before the percentage of integers on both diagonals that are primes falls below 10%.
Link: https://projecteuler.net/problem=58
Solution Technique
Finding the numbers that lie on the diagonals of the spiral consists of iterating through a vector of integers at intervals of increasing spacing. So all we need to do is implement a counter to generate integers, a variable to keep track of how many integers until the next number on the diagonal, and a method to check if a number is prime.
Code
Here is the core of the method, which uses a queue to pop two numbers (east/west) at a time:
while(!q.isEmpty()) { // Remove two diagonals (one row) at a time // (problem asks for ratio of primes on *both* diagonals) ned = q.remove(); numbers++; nwd = q.remove(); numbers++; row++; if(Sieve.isPrime(ned)) { primes++; } if(Sieve.isPrime(nwd)) { primes++; } // Update ratio ratio = (1.0*primes)/numbers; if(row%1000==0) { System.out.println(row); } // If < 10%, return if(ratio <= 0.10) { return Integer.toString(row+1); } // If not < 10%, increment i and compute next entries q.add(nextNE(ned,row+1)); q.add(nextNW(nwd,row+1)); }
Link: https://git.charlesreid1.com/cs/euler/src/master/scratch/Round2_050-070/058/Problem058.java
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