{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "eb246b50", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# [Digit Cancelling Fractions](https://projecteuler.net/problem=33)\n", "\n", "The search term for this concept is an [anomalous cancellation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_cancellation). We can write a function that checks if an anomalous cancellation can happen by storing the digits of the numerator and denominator into four variables total, then checking four separate cases for if a digit can be \"cancelled.\"" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "id": "d4e94963", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def digits(n):\n", " return (n // 10, n % 10)\n", "\n", "\n", "def can_cancel_digits(n, d):\n", " x, y = digits(n)\n", " z, w = digits(d)\n", "\n", " f = QQ(n/d)\n", "\n", " if x == z and w != 0 and y/w == f:\n", " return True\n", " elif x == w and y/z == f:\n", " return True\n", " elif y == z and w != 0 and x/w == f:\n", " return True\n", " elif y == w and w != 0 and x/z == f:\n", " return True\n", "\n", " return False" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "a68309e9", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "We're only dealing with two-digit numerators and denominators, so this is easy to brute force." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "id": "756614f7", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "{(16, 64), (19, 95), (26, 65), (49, 98)}" ] }, "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "fractions = set()\n", "for n in range(10, 100):\n", " for d in range(n + 1, 100):\n", " if can_cancel_digits(n, d):\n", " fractions.add((n, d))\n", "\n", "fractions" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "6d3fb43b", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "There's only four such fractions." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "id": "90f47a7f", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "100" ] }, "execution_count": 3, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "prod(QQ(n/d) for (n, d) in fractions).denominator()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "1514f872", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "#### Copyright (C) 2025 filifa\n", "\n", "This work is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) and the [BSD Zero Clause license](https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html)." ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "SageMath 9.5", "language": "sage", "name": "sagemath" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.11.2" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5 }