{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "c09827d4", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# [Counting Summations](https://projecteuler.net/problem=76)\n", "\n", "We want $p(100) - 1$, where $p(n)$ is the [partition function](https://w.wiki/EoNj). We subtract 1 because $p(n)$ counts $n$ by itself as a partition of $n$, but we only want partitions composed of two or more numbers.\n", "\n", "Guess what? SageMath has this built-in." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "id": "1e4ff844", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "190569291" ] }, "execution_count": 1, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "number_of_partitions(100) - 1" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "d06d7ff2", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Alternatively, if we think of this problem like [problem 31](https://projecteuler.net/problem=31) - just with coins of every possible denomination instead of only a few - we can adapt any of our approaches to that problem, where we construct a generating function." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "id": "bba7ef34", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "190569291" ] }, "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "R. = PowerSeriesRing(ZZ, default_prec=101)\n", "G = 1 / prod(1 - x^n for n in range(1, 100))\n", "G[100]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "681d7716", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Relevant sequences\n", "* Partition numbers: [A000041](https://oeis.org/A000041)\n", "\n", "#### 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 }