/* * Solution to Project Euler problem 33 * Copyright (c) Project Nayuki. All rights reserved. * * https://www.nayuki.io/page/project-euler-solutions * https://github.com/nayuki/Project-Euler-solutions */ public final class p033 implements EulerSolution { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(new p033().run()); } /* * Consider an arbitrary fraction n/d: * Let n = 10 * n1 + n0 be the numerator. * Let d = 10 * d1 + d0 be the denominator. * As stated in the problem, we need 10 <= n < d < 100. * We must disregard trivial simplifications where n0 = d0 = 0. * * Now, a simplification with n0 = d0 is impossible because: * n1 / d1 = n / d = (10*n1 + n0) / (10*d1 + n0). * n1 * (10*d1 + n0) = d1 * (10*n1 + n0). * 10*n1*d1 + n1*n0 = 10*d1*n1 + d1*n0. * n1*n0 = d1*n0. * n1 = d1. * This implies n = d, which contradicts the fact that n < d. * Similarly, we cannot have a simplification with n1 = d1 for the same reason. * * Therefore we only need to consider the cases where n0 = d1 or n1 = d0. * In the first case, check that n1/d0 = n/d; * in the second case, check that n0/d1 = n/d. */ public String run() { int numer = 1; int denom = 1; for (int d = 10; d < 100; d++) { for (int n = 10; n < d; n++) { int n0 = n % 10, n1 = n / 10; int d0 = d % 10, d1 = d / 10; if (n1 == d0 && n0 * d == n * d1 || n0 == d1 && n1 * d == n * d0) { numer *= n; denom *= d; } } } return Integer.toString(denom / Library.gcd(numer, denom)); } }