{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "67a42435", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# [Coded Triangle Numbers](https://projecteuler.net/problem=42)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "94f69404", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "First we read in the words:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "id": "8d7380ba", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "with open(\"txt/0042_words.txt\") as f:\n", " words = {w.strip('\"') for w in f.read().split(\",\")}" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "0a73cc47", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "We'll also write a simple function for testing if a word is a \"triangle word\". We'll make use of SageMath's built-in function for testing if a number is triangular." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "id": "313a760f", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def is_triangle_word(word):\n", " value = sum(ord(c) - ord('A') + 1 for c in word)\n", " return is_triangular_number(value)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "ba53d2b1", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "(It's not difficult to apply the quadratic formula to write our own test for [triangular numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_number).)\n", "\n", "Now we just test each word." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "id": "14a9ea9a", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "162" ] }, "execution_count": 3, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "triangle_words = {w for w in words if is_triangle_word(w)}\n", "len(triangle_words)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "02bf08bf", "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 }