Problem #58 says:
Starting with 1 and spiraling anticlockwise in the following way, a square spiral with side length 7 is formed.
It is interesting to note that the odd squares lie along the bottom right diagonal,
but what is more interesting is that 8 out of the 13 numbers lying along both diagonals are prime;
that is, a ratio of 8/13 ≈ 62%.If one complete new layer is wrapped around the spiral above, a square spiral with side length 9 will be formed.
If this process is continued, what is the side length of the square spiral for which the ratio of
primes along both diagonals first falls below 10%?
The below solution simply counts the offset between corners and checks that number to see if its prime or composite then the next cycle after its check it updates the offset amount and continues this way until its collected a list of prime and composite numbers that have less than 10% prime numbers. very simple, no optimizations applied. The solution could be made faster by using a simpler test and also by not keeping a list of composite numbers but a counter instead.
Solution in f# and requires the .net 4.0 run-time. runs in ~50 seconds.
#light
module ProjectEuler
open System
open System.Diagnostics
open Microsoft.FSharp.Linq
open Microsoft.FSharp.Collections
open Microsoft.FSharp.Math
open System.Numerics
let toBinary (n:BigInteger) =
let mutable m = n
let mutable r = []
while m > BigInteger.Zero do
r <- r @ [(m % (BigInteger 2))]
m <- m / BigInteger 2
r
let test (a:BigInteger) (n:BigInteger) =
let (b:List<BigInteger>) = toBinary (n - BigInteger.One)
let mutable d = BigInteger.One
let mutable Prime = false
let CheckList = [0 .. b.Length-1 ] |> List.rev
for i in CheckList do
let x = d
d <- (d*d) % n
if (d = BigInteger.One && x <> BigInteger.One && x <> n-BigInteger.One) then
Prime <- true // complex
if b.[i] = BigInteger.One then
d <- (d*a) % n
if d <> BigInteger.One then
Prime <- true //complex
Prime //if its still false then prime
let MillerRabin (n:uint64) (s:int) =
let Rand = new System.Random()
let mutable Prime = true
if n < Convert.ToUInt64(Int32.MaxValue) then
for j in [1 .. s+1] do
let a = Rand.Next(1, Convert.ToInt32(n)-1)
if (test (BigInteger a) (BigInteger n)) then
Prime <- false
else
for j in [1 .. s+1] do
let a = Rand.Next(1, Int32.MaxValue)
if (test (BigInteger a) (BigInteger n)) then
Prime <- false
Prime
let watch = new Stopwatch()
watch.Start()
let rec Answer (currentnum:uint64) (step:uint64) (prime:List<uint64>) (composite:List<uint64>) (tick:bool) =
let check = (float prime.Length)/((float composite.Length)+(float prime.Length))
if check < 0.1 && currentnum > 100UL then
step-1UL
else
if (tick) then
if (MillerRabin currentnum 10) then
Answer (currentnum+step) step (currentnum::prime) composite (false)
else
Answer (currentnum+step) step (prime) (currentnum::composite) (false)
else
if (MillerRabin currentnum 10) then
Answer (currentnum+step) (step+1UL) (currentnum::prime) composite (true)
else
Answer (currentnum+step) (step+1UL) (prime) (currentnum::composite) (true)
Console.WriteLine(Answer 3UL 2UL [] [1UL] true )
watch.Stop()
Console.WriteLine(watch.Elapsed)
Console.Beep() |> ignore
Console.ReadKey() |> ignore