Floyd's triangle
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Floyd's triangle lists the natural numbers in a right triangle aligned to the left where
- the first row is just 1
- successive rows start towards the left with the next number followed by successive naturals listing one more number than the line above.
The first few lines of a Floyd triangle looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
The task is to:
- Write a program to generate and display here the first n lines of a Floyd triangle.
(Use n=5 and n=15 rows). - Ensure that when displayed in a monospace font, the numbers line up in vertical rows as shown and that only one space separates the two largest numbers.
Python
<lang python>>>> def floyd(rowcount=5): rows = 1 while len(rows) < rowcount: n = rows[-1][-1] + 1 rows.append(list(range(n, n + len(rows[-1]) + 1))) return rows
>>> floyd() [[1], [2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9, 10], [11, 12, 13, 14, 15]] >>> def pfloyd(rows=[[1], [2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9, 10]]): colspace = [len(str(n)) for n in rows[-1]] for row in rows: print( ' '.join('%*i' % space_n for space_n in zip(colspace, row)))
>>> pfloyd()
1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
>>> pfloyd(floyd(8))
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 >>> pfloyd(floyd(15))
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105
106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 >>> </lang>