Typical – I’m late

Here are my solutions from the last set that I never got around to posting:

Problem 3 – I guess I just printed the list and then took the biggest here.

def divisors(n):
  divs = set([1])

  for i in range(2, int(math.sqrt(n)) + 1):
    if n % i == 0:
      divs.add(i)
      divs.add(n/i)

  return divs

def isPrime(n):
  return len(divisors(n)) == 1

divs = list(divisors(600851475143))
divs.sort()
divs.reverse()

for div in divs:
  if isPrime(div):
    print div

Problem 4 –

def isPalidrome(num):
    numstr = str(num)
    for i in range(len(numstr)):
	if numstr[i] != numstr[-i-1]:
	    return False
    return True

i = 999
j = 999
prod = i * j
biggest = 0
big_i = 0
big_j = 0

while prod > biggest:
    while prod > biggest:
	if isPalidrome(prod):
	    biggest = prod
	    big_i = i
	    big_j = j
	    break
	j -= 1
	prod = i * j
    i -= 1
    j = i
    prod = i * j

print "Biggest is: ", big_i, " x ", big_j, " = ", biggest

Problem 5 – Okay, this one is cheap, but Carolyn and I figured out that it was super easy to just count which divisors you needed, so there wasn’t really much coding to do. 🙂

print 20*19*9*17*4*7*13*11

Problem 6 – Hmm. Don’t see where I put the source to this one, so maybe I skipped it. I’ll post it with the solutions to next (i.e. this) week’s problems.

Cheers.

Tags: elf, prob3, prob4, prob5