Rare numbers
- Definitions and restrictions
Rare numbers are positive integers n where:
- n is expressed in base ten
- r is the reverse of n (decimal digits)
- n must be non-palindromic (n ≠ r)
- (n+r) is the sum
- (n-r) is the difference and must be positive
- the sum and the difference must be perfect squares
- Task
-
- find and show the first 5 rare numbers
- find and show the first 8 rare numbers (optional)
- find and show more rare numbers (stretch goal)
Show all output here, on this page.
- References
-
- an OEIS entry: A035519 rare numbers.
- an OEIS entry: A059755 odd rare numbers.
- planetmath entry: rare numbers. (some hints)
- author's website: rare numbers by Shyam Sunder Gupta. (lots of hints and some observations).
F#
The Function
This solution demonstrates the concept described in Talk:Rare_numbers#30_mins_not_30_years. It doesn't use Cartesian_product_of_two_or_more_lists#Extra_Credit <lang fsharp> // Find all Rare numbers with a digits. Nigel Galloway: September 18th., 2019. let rareNums a=
let tN=set[1L;4L;5L;6L;9L]
let izPS g=let n=(float>>sqrt>>int64)g in n*n=g
let n=[for n in [0..a/2-1] do yield ((pown 10L (a-n-1))-(pown 10L n))]|>List.rev
let rec fN i g e=seq{match e with 0->yield g |e->for n in i do yield! fN [-9L..9L] (n::g) (e-1)}|>Seq.filter(fun g->let g=Seq.map2(*) n g|>Seq.sum in g>0L && izPS g)
let rec fG n i g e l=seq{
match l with
h::t->for l in max 0L (0L-h)..min 9L (9L-h) do if e>1L||l=0L||tN.Contains((2L*l+h)%10L) then yield! fG (n+l*e+(l+h)*g) (i+l*g+(l+h)*e) (g/10L) (e*10L) t
|_->if n>(pown 10L (a-1)) then for l in (if a%2=0 then [0L] else [0L..9L]) do let g=l*(pown 10L (a/2)) in if izPS (n+i+2L*g) then yield (i+g,n+g)}
fN [0L..9L] [] (a/2) |> Seq.collect(List.rev >> fG 0L 0L (pown 10L (a-1)) 1L)
</lang>
43 down
<lang fsharp> let test n=
let t = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew() for n in (rareNums n) do printfn "%A" n t.Stop() printfn "Elapsed Time: %d ms for length %d" t.ElapsedMilliseconds n
[2..17] |> Seq.iter test </lang>
- Output:
(56L, 65L) Elapsed Time: 31 ms for length 2 Elapsed Time: 0 ms for length 3 Elapsed Time: 0 ms for length 4 Elapsed Time: 0 ms for length 5 (77126L, 621770L) Elapsed Time: 6 ms for length 6 Elapsed Time: 6 ms for length 7 Elapsed Time: 113 ms for length 8 (280980182L, 281089082L) Elapsed Time: 72 ms for length 9 (2022562202L, 2022652202L) (2002382402L, 2042832002L) Elapsed Time: 1525 ms for length 10 Elapsed Time: 1351 ms for length 11 (871479645278L, 872546974178L) (871457865278L, 872568754178L) (757480195868L, 868591084757L) Elapsed Time: 27990 ms for length 12 (5881592039796L, 6979302951885L) Elapsed Time: 26051 ms for length 13 (20240939631302L, 20313693904202L) (20240793831302L, 20313839704202L) (20222975613302L, 20331657922202L) (20222757813302L, 20331875722202L) (20220757833302L, 20333875702202L) (240739831304L, 40313893704200L) (202739815304L, 40351893720200L) Elapsed Time: 552922 ms for length 14 (200137583241002L, 200142385731002L) (221457543264122L, 221462345754122L) (816921665489618L, 816984566129618L) (244670699815542L, 245518996076442L) (200660494832402L, 204238494066002L) (244781494953842L, 248359494187442L) (240422198260442L, 244062891224042L) (5434293850304L, 403058392434500L) (43430495450144L, 441054594034340L) Elapsed Time: 512282 ms for length 15 (2126675496873312L, 2133786945766212L) (2124893498655312L, 2135568943984212L) (8180266864511918L, 8191154686620818L) (8180264686511918L, 8191156864620818L) (2124697854675312L, 2135764587964212L) (2124675676875312L, 2135786765764212L) (8180044686731918L, 8191376864400818L) (2021612621138702L, 2078311262161202L) (7152956206592508L, 8052956026592517L) (7152956026592508L, 8052956206592517L) (7541459867230568L, 8650327689541457L) (7541437689430568L, 8650349867341457L) (5046466897757516L, 6157577986646405L) (124675496875314L, 4135786945764210L) (143818075679886L, 6889765708183410L) Elapsed Time: 11568713 ms for length 16 (86965749405756968L, 86965750494756968L) (22541929604024522L, 22542040692914522L) (4656716501952776L, 67725910561765640L) Elapsed Time: 11275839 ms for length 17
Go
Version 1
This uses most of the hints within Shyam Sunder Gupta's webpage combined with Nigel Galloway's general approach (see Talk page) of working from (n-r) and deducing the Rare numbers with various numbers of digits from there.
Although fast (numbers up to 15 digits are processed in around 28 seconds), it runs out of memory when trying to process numbers longer than this.
Timings are for an Intel Core i7-8565U machine with 32GB RAM running Go 1.13.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
<lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "math" "sort" "time"
)
type term struct {
coeff int64 ix1, ix2 int8
}
const maxDigits = 15
func toInt64(digits []int8, reverse bool) int64 {
sum := int64(0)
if !reverse {
for i := 0; i < len(digits); i++ {
sum = sum*10 + int64(digits[i])
}
} else {
for i := len(digits) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
sum = sum*10 + int64(digits[i])
}
}
return sum
}
func sumDigits(n int64) int64 {
var sum int64
for n > 0 {
d := n % 10
sum += d
n /= 10
}
return sum
}
func isSquare(n int64) bool {
if 0x202021202030213&(1<<(n&63)) != 0 {
root := int64(math.Sqrt(float64(n)))
return root*root == n
}
return false
}
// From the Cartesian product of two or more lists task - Extra credit 1. func cp(a ...[]int8) [][]int8 {
c := 1
for _, a := range a {
c *= len(a)
}
if c == 0 {
return nil
}
p := make([][]int8, c)
b := make([]int8, c*len(a))
n := make([]int8, len(a))
s := 0
for i := range p {
e := s + len(a)
pi := b[s:e]
p[i] = pi
s = e
for j, n := range n {
pi[j] = a[j][n]
}
for j := len(n) - 1; j >= 0; j-- {
n[j]++
if n[j] < int8(len(a[j])) {
break
}
n[j] = 0
}
}
return p
}
func seq(from, to, step int8) []int8 {
var res []int8
for i := from; i <= to; i += step {
res = append(res, i)
}
return res
}
func commatize(n int64) string {
s := fmt.Sprintf("%d", n)
le := len(s)
for i := le - 3; i >= 1; i -= 3 {
s = s[0:i] + "," + s[i:]
}
return s
}
func main() {
start := time.Now()
pow := int64(1)
// terms of (n-r) expression for number of digits from 2 to maxDigits
allTerms := make([][]term, maxDigits-1)
for r := 2; r <= maxDigits; r++ {
var terms []term
pow *= 10
pow1, pow2 := pow, int64(1)
for i1, i2 := int8(0), int8(r-1); i1 < i2; i1, i2 = i1+1, i2-1 {
terms = append(terms, term{pow1 - pow2, i1, i2})
pow1 /= 10
pow2 *= 10
}
allTerms[r-2] = terms
}
// map of first minus last digits for 'n' to pairs giving this value
fml := map[int8][][]int8{
0: {{2, 2}, {8, 8}},
1: {{6, 5}, {8, 7}},
4: Template:4, 0,
6: {{6, 0}, {8, 2}},
}
// map of other digit differences for 'n' to pairs giving this value
dmd := make(map[int8][][]int8)
for i := int8(0); i < 100; i++ {
a := []int8{i / 10, i % 10}
d := a[0] - a[1]
dmd[d] = append(dmd[d], a)
}
fl := []int8{0, 1, 4, 6}
dl := seq(-9, 9, 1)
zl := []int8{0}
el := seq(-8, 8, 2)
ol := seq(-9, 9, 2)
il := seq(0, 9, 1)
var rares []int64
lists := make([][][]int8, 4)
for i, f := range fl {
lists[i] = [][]int8Template:F
}
fmt.Printf("The rare numbers with up to %d digits are:\n", maxDigits)
for nd := 2; nd <= maxDigits; nd++ {
digits := make([]int8, nd)
if nd == 4 {
lists[0] = append(lists[0], zl)
lists[1] = append(lists[1], ol)
lists[2] = append(lists[2], el)
lists[3] = append(lists[3], ol)
} else if len(allTerms[nd-2]) > len(lists[0]) {
for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
lists[i] = append(lists[i], dl)
}
}
var indices [][2]int8
for _, t := range allTerms[nd-2] {
indices = append(indices, [2]int8{t.ix1, t.ix2})
}
for _, list := range lists {
cands := cp(list...)
for _, cand := range cands {
nmr := int64(0)
for i, t := range allTerms[nd-2] {
nmr += t.coeff * int64(cand[i])
}
if nmr <= 0 || !isSquare(nmr) {
continue
}
var dis [][]int8
dis = append(dis, seq(0, int8(len(fml[cand[0]]))-1, 1))
for i := 1; i < len(cand); i++ {
dis = append(dis, seq(0, int8(len(dmd[cand[i]]))-1, 1))
}
if nd%2 == 1 {
dis = append(dis, il)
}
dis = cp(dis...)
for _, di := range dis {
digits[indices[0][0]] = fml[cand[0]][di[0]][0]
digits[indices[0][1]] = fml[cand[0]][di[0]][1]
le := len(di)
if nd%2 == 1 {
le--
digits[nd/2] = di[le]
}
for i, d := range di[1:le] {
digits[indices[i+1][0]] = dmd[cand[i+1]][d][0]
digits[indices[i+1][1]] = dmd[cand[i+1]][d][1]
}
r := toInt64(digits, true)
npr := nmr + 2*r
if !isSquare(npr) {
continue
}
rares = append(rares, toInt64(digits, false))
}
}
}
}
sort.Slice(rares, func(i, j int) bool { return rares[i] < rares[j] })
for i, rare := range rares {
fmt.Printf(" %2d: %19s\n", i+1, commatize(rare))
}
fmt.Printf("\nUp to %d digits processed in %s\n", maxDigits, time.Since(start))
}</lang>
- Output:
The rare numbers with up to 15 digits are: 1: 65 2: 621,770 3: 281,089,082 4: 2,022,652,202 5: 2,042,832,002 6: 868,591,084,757 7: 872,546,974,178 8: 872,568,754,178 9: 6,979,302,951,885 10: 20,313,693,904,202 11: 20,313,839,704,202 12: 20,331,657,922,202 13: 20,331,875,722,202 14: 20,333,875,702,202 15: 40,313,893,704,200 16: 40,351,893,720,200 17: 200,142,385,731,002 18: 204,238,494,066,002 19: 221,462,345,754,122 20: 244,062,891,224,042 21: 245,518,996,076,442 22: 248,359,494,187,442 23: 403,058,392,434,500 24: 441,054,594,034,340 25: 816,984,566,129,618 Up to 15 digits processed in 28.174979081s
Version 2
To deal with the high memory overhead of the first version, this version delivers the Cartesian products 100 at a time rather than en masse. Not surprisingly, this version is slower than the first and its now taking about 43 seconds to get to 15 digits. However, the pay-off is that 16 and 17 digit numbers can now be processed in a reasonable time without running out of memory. <lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "math" "sort" "time"
)
type term struct {
coeff int64 ix1, ix2 int8
}
const (
maxDigits = 17 chanBufSize = 100
)
func toInt64(digits []int8, reverse bool) int64 {
sum := int64(0)
if !reverse {
for i := 0; i < len(digits); i++ {
sum = sum*10 + int64(digits[i])
}
} else {
for i := len(digits) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
sum = sum*10 + int64(digits[i])
}
}
return sum
}
func isSquare(n int64) bool {
if 0x202021202030213&(1<<(n&63)) != 0 {
root := int64(math.Sqrt(float64(n)))
return root*root == n
}
return false
}
// From the Cartesian product of two or more lists task - Extra credit 1. // Changed to yield results 'chanBufSize' at a time rather than en masse. func cp(ch chan<- []int8, a ...[]int8) {
c := 1
for _, a := range a {
c *= len(a)
}
if c == 0 {
close(ch)
return
}
b := make([]int8, c*len(a))
n := make([]int8, len(a))
s := 0
for i := 0; i < c; i++ {
e := s + len(a)
pi := b[s:e]
for j, n := range n {
pi[j] = a[j][n]
}
for j := len(n) - 1; j >= 0; j-- {
n[j]++
if n[j] < int8(len(a[j])) {
break
}
n[j] = 0
}
ch <- pi
s = e
}
close(ch)
}
func seq(from, to, step int8) []int8 {
var res []int8
for i := from; i <= to; i += step {
res = append(res, i)
}
return res
}
func commatize(n int64) string {
s := fmt.Sprintf("%d", n)
le := len(s)
for i := le - 3; i >= 1; i -= 3 {
s = s[0:i] + "," + s[i:]
}
return s
}
func main() {
start := time.Now()
pow := int64(1)
// terms of (n-r) expression for number of digits from 2 to maxDigits
allTerms := make([][]term, maxDigits-1)
fmt.Println("Aggregate timings to process all numbers up to:")
for r := 2; r <= maxDigits; r++ {
var terms []term
pow *= 10
pow1, pow2 := pow, int64(1)
for i1, i2 := int8(0), int8(r-1); i1 < i2; i1, i2 = i1+1, i2-1 {
terms = append(terms, term{pow1 - pow2, i1, i2})
pow1 /= 10
pow2 *= 10
}
allTerms[r-2] = terms
}
// map of first minus last digits for 'n' to pairs giving this value
fml := map[int8][][]int8{
0: {{2, 2}, {8, 8}},
1: {{6, 5}, {8, 7}},
4: Template:4, 0,
6: {{6, 0}, {8, 2}},
}
// map of other digit differences for 'n' to pairs giving this value
dmd := make(map[int8][][]int8)
for i := int8(0); i < 100; i++ {
a := []int8{i / 10, i % 10}
d := a[0] - a[1]
dmd[d] = append(dmd[d], a)
}
fl := []int8{0, 1, 4, 6}
dl := seq(-9, 9, 1) // all differences
zl := []int8{0} // zero differences only
el := seq(-8, 8, 2) // even differences only
ol := seq(-9, 9, 2) // odd differences only
il := seq(0, 9, 1)
var rares []int64
lists := make([][][]int8, 4)
for i, f := range fl {
lists[i] = [][]int8Template:F
}
for nd := 2; nd <= maxDigits; nd++ {
digits := make([]int8, nd)
if nd == 4 {
lists[0] = append(lists[0], zl)
lists[1] = append(lists[1], ol)
lists[2] = append(lists[2], el)
lists[3] = append(lists[3], ol)
} else if len(allTerms[nd-2]) > len(lists[0]) {
for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
lists[i] = append(lists[i], dl)
}
}
var indices [][2]int8
for _, t := range allTerms[nd-2] {
indices = append(indices, [2]int8{t.ix1, t.ix2})
}
for _, list := range lists {
ch := make(chan []int8, chanBufSize)
go cp(ch, list...)
for cand := range ch {
nmr := int64(0)
for i, t := range allTerms[nd-2] {
nmr += t.coeff * int64(cand[i])
}
if nmr <= 0 || !isSquare(nmr) {
continue
}
var dis [][]int8
dis = append(dis, seq(0, int8(len(fml[cand[0]]))-1, 1))
for i := 1; i < len(cand); i++ {
dis = append(dis, seq(0, int8(len(dmd[cand[i]]))-1, 1))
}
if nd%2 == 1 {
dis = append(dis, il)
}
ch2 := make(chan []int8, chanBufSize)
go cp(ch2, dis...)
for di := range ch2 {
digits[indices[0][0]] = fml[cand[0]][di[0]][0]
digits[indices[0][1]] = fml[cand[0]][di[0]][1]
le := len(di)
if nd%2 == 1 {
le--
digits[nd/2] = di[le]
}
for i, d := range di[1:le] {
digits[indices[i+1][0]] = dmd[cand[i+1]][d][0]
digits[indices[i+1][1]] = dmd[cand[i+1]][d][1]
}
r := toInt64(digits, true)
npr := nmr + 2*r
if !isSquare(npr) {
continue
}
rares = append(rares, toInt64(digits, false))
}
}
}
fmt.Printf(" %2d digits: %9s ms\n", nd, commatize(time.Since(start).Milliseconds()))
}
sort.Slice(rares, func(i, j int) bool { return rares[i] < rares[j] })
fmt.Printf("\nThe rare numbers with up to %d digits are:\n", maxDigits)
for i, rare := range rares {
fmt.Printf(" %2d: %22s\n", i+1, commatize(rare))
}
}</lang>
- Output:
Aggregate timings to process all numbers up to: 2 digits: 0 ms 3 digits: 0 ms 4 digits: 0 ms 5 digits: 0 ms 6 digits: 0 ms 7 digits: 1 ms 8 digits: 6 ms 9 digits: 9 ms 10 digits: 118 ms 11 digits: 180 ms 12 digits: 1,363 ms 13 digits: 2,323 ms 14 digits: 26,586 ms 15 digits: 43,034 ms 16 digits: 405,029 ms 17 digits: 678,839 ms The rare numbers with up to 17 digits are: 1: 65 2: 621,770 3: 281,089,082 4: 2,022,652,202 5: 2,042,832,002 6: 868,591,084,757 7: 872,546,974,178 8: 872,568,754,178 9: 6,979,302,951,885 10: 20,313,693,904,202 11: 20,313,839,704,202 12: 20,331,657,922,202 13: 20,331,875,722,202 14: 20,333,875,702,202 15: 40,313,893,704,200 16: 40,351,893,720,200 17: 200,142,385,731,002 18: 204,238,494,066,002 19: 221,462,345,754,122 20: 244,062,891,224,042 21: 245,518,996,076,442 22: 248,359,494,187,442 23: 403,058,392,434,500 24: 441,054,594,034,340 25: 816,984,566,129,618 26: 2,078,311,262,161,202 27: 2,133,786,945,766,212 28: 2,135,568,943,984,212 29: 2,135,764,587,964,212 30: 2,135,786,765,764,212 31: 4,135,786,945,764,210 32: 6,157,577,986,646,405 33: 6,889,765,708,183,410 34: 8,052,956,026,592,517 35: 8,052,956,206,592,517 36: 8,191,154,686,620,818 37: 8,191,156,864,620,818 38: 8,191,376,864,400,818 39: 8,650,327,689,541,457 40: 8,650,349,867,341,457 41: 22,542,040,692,914,522 42: 67,725,910,561,765,640 43: 86,965,750,494,756,968
Julia
Pretty slow to get 8 rare numbers, even if the squares are checked via table. <lang julia>fixeddigits = Dict(2 => [[0, 0, 2], [8, 8, 2]], 4 => 0, 0, 0,
6 => [[2, 7, 0], [9, 8, 5]], 8 => [[6, 5, 7],[7, 7, 8]])
squares = Dict([i * i => 1 for i in 1:1500000])
i2dig(i) = (d = Int[]; while i > 0 i, r = divrem(i, 10); push!(d, r) end; d) dig2i(d) = (n = 0; for i in d n = 10 * n + i end; n)
function simplegetrare(upto)
ret = Int[]
for n in 0:upto
dig = i2dig(n)
r = dig2i(dig)
nrsum, nrdiff = n + r, n - r
if nrdiff > 0 && haskey(squares, nrsum) && haskey(squares, nrdiff)
push!(ret, n)
end
end
ret
end
function getrare(N)
ret = simplegetrare(20000)
for i in 0:typemax(Int)
basedigits = i2dig(i)
for a in [2,4,6,8], (b, p, q) in fixeddigits[a]
dig = [[q, p]; basedigits; [b, a]]
r = dig2i(dig)
n = dig2i(reverse(dig))
nrsum, nrdiff = n + r, n - r
if nrdiff > 0 && haskey(squares, nrsum) && haskey(squares, nrdiff)
push!(ret, n)
if length(ret) >= N
return ret
end
end
end
end
end
getrare(3) @time println("The first 8 rare numbers are: ", sort(getrare(8)))
</lang>
- Output:
The first 8 rare numbers are: [65, 621770, 281089082, 2022652202, 2042832002, 868591084757, 872546974178, 872568754178] 1379.707737 seconds (9.36 G allocations: 545.177 GiB, 2.25% gc time)
REXX
(See the discussion page for a simplistic 1st version that computes rare numbers only using the task's basic rules).
Most of the hints (properties of rare numbers) within Shyam Sunder Gupta's webpage have been incorporated in this
REXX program and the logic is now expressed within the list of AB...PQ (abutted numbers within the @g list).
These improvements made this REXX version around 25% faster than the previous version (see the discussion page). <lang rexx>/*REXX program calculates and displays a specified amount of rare numbers. */ numeric digits 20; w= digits() + digits() % 3 /*use enough dec. digs for calculations*/ parse arg many . /*obtain optional argument from the CL.*/ if many== | many=="," then many= 5 /*Not specified? Then use the default.*/ @g= 2002 2112 2222 2332 2442 2552 2662 2772 2882 2992 4000 4010 4030 4050 4070 4090 4100 ,
4110 4120 4140 4160 4180 4210 4230 4250 4270 4290 4300 4320 4340 4360 4380 4410 4430 , 4440 4450 4470 4490 4500 4520 4540 4560 4580 4610 4630 4650 4670 4690 4700 4720 4740 , 4760 4780 4810 4830 4850 4870 4890 4900 4920 4940 4960 4980 4990 6010 6015 6030 6035 , 6050 6055 6070 6075 6090 6095 6100 6105 6120 6125 6140 6145 6160 6165 6180 6185 6210 , 6215 6230 6235 6250 6255 6270 6275 6290 6295 6300 6305 6320 6325 6340 6345 6360 6365 , 6380 6385 6410 6415 6430 6435 6450 6455 6470 6475 6490 6495 6500 6505 6520 6525 6540 , 6545 6560 6565 6580 6585 6610 6615 6630 6635 6650 6655 6670 6675 6690 6695 6700 6705 , 6720 6725 6740 6745 6760 6765 6780 6785 6810 6815 6830 6835 6850 6855 6870 6875 6890 , 6895 6900 6905 6920 6925 6940 6945 6960 6965 6980 6985 8007 8008 8017 8027 8037 8047 , 8057 8067 8077 8087 8092 8097 8107 8117 8118 8127 8137 8147 8157 8167 8177 8182 8187 , 8197 8228 8272 8297 8338 8362 8387 8448 8452 8477 8542 8558 8567 8632 8657 8668 8722 , 8747 8778 8812 8837 8888 8902 8927 8998 /*4 digit abutted numbers for AB and PQ*/
@g#= words(@g)
/* [↓]─────────────────boolean arrays are used for checking for digit presence.*/
@dr.=0; @dr.2= 1; @dr.5=1 ; @dr.8= 1; @dr.9= 1 /*rare # must have these digital roots.*/ @ps.=0; @ps.2= 1; @ps.3= 1; @ps.7= 1; @ps.8= 1 /*perfect squares must end in these.*/ @149.=0; @149.1=1; @149.4=1; @149.9=1 /*values for Z that need an even Y. */ @odd.=0; do i=-9 by 2 to 9; @odd.i=1 /* " " N " " " " A. */
end /*i*/
@gen.=0; do i=1 for words(@g); parse value word(@g,i) with a 2 b 3 p 4 q; @gen.a.b.p.q=1
/*# AB···PQ could be a good rare value*/
end /*i*/
div9= 9 /*dif must be ÷ 9 when N has even #digs*/ evenN= \ (10 // 2) /*initial value for evenness of N. */
- = 0 /*the number of rare numbers (so far)*/
do n=10 /*Why 10? All 1 dig #s are palindromic*/
parse var n a 2 b 3 -2 p +1 q /*get 1st\2nd\penultimate\last digits. */
if @odd.a then do; n=n+10**(length(n)-1)-1 /*bump N so next N starts with even dig*/
evenN=\(length(n+1)//2) /*flag when N has an even # of digits. */
if evenN then div9= 9 /*when dif isn't divisible by 9 ... */
else div9= 99 /* " " " " " 99 " */
iterate /*let REXX do its thing with DO loop.*/
end /* {it's allowed to modify a DO index} */
if \@gen.a.b.p.q then iterate /*can N not be a rare AB···PQ number?*/
r= reverse(n) /*obtain the reverse of the number N. */
if r>n then iterate /*Difference will be negative? Skip it*/
if n==r then iterate /*Palindromic? Then it can't be rare.*/
dif= n-r; parse var dif -2 y +1 z /*obtain the last 2 digs of difference.*/
if @ps.z then iterate /*Not 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 9? Not perfect sq.*/
select
when z==0 then if y\==0 then iterate /*Does Z = 0? Then Y must be zero. */
when z==5 then if y\==2 then iterate /*Does Z = 5? Then Y must be two. */
when z==6 then if y//2==0 then iterate /*Does Z = 6? Then Y must be odd. */
otherwise if @149.z then if y//2 then iterate /*Z=1,4,9? Y must be even*/
end /*select*/ /* [↑] the OTHERWISE handles Z=8 case.*/
if dif//div9\==0 then iterate /*Difference isn't ÷ by div9? Then skip*/
sum= n+r; parse var sum -2 y +1 z /*obtain the last two digits of the sum*/
if @ps.z then iterate /*Not 0, 2, 5, 8, or 9? Not perfect sq.*/
select
when z==0 then if y\==0 then iterate /*Does Z = 0? Then Y must be zero. */
when z==5 then if y\==2 then iterate /*Does Z = 5? Then Y must be two. */
when z==6 then if y//2==0 then iterate /*Does Z = 6? Then Y must be odd. */
otherwise if @149.z then if y//2 then iterate /*Z=1,4,9? Y must be even*/
end /*select*/ /* [↑] the OTHERWISE handles Z=8 case.*/
if evenN then if sum//11 \==0 then iterate /*N has even #digs? Sum must be ÷ by 11*/
$= a + b /*a head start on figuring digital root*/
do k=3 for length(n) - 2 /*now, process the rest of the digits. */
$= $ + substr(n, k, 1) /*add the remainder of the digits in N.*/
end /*k*/
do while $>9 /* [◄] Algorithm is good for 111 digs.*/
if $>9 then $= left($,1) + substr($,2,1) + substr($,3,1,0) /*>9? Reduce it.*/
end /*while*/
if \@dr.$ then iterate /*Doesn't have good digital root? Skip*/
if iSqrt(sum)**2 \== sum then iterate /*Not a perfect square? Then skip it. */
if iSqrt(dif)**2 \== dif then iterate /* " " " " " " " */
#= # + 1; call tell /*bump rare number counter; display #.*/
if #>=many then leave /* [↑] W: the width of # with commas.*/
end /*n*/
exit /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */ /*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ commas: parse arg _; do jc=length(_)-3 to 1 by -3; _=insert(',', _, jc); end; return _ tell: say right(th(#),length(#)+9) ' rare number is:' right(commas(n),w); return th: parse arg th;return th||word('th st nd rd',1+(th//10)*(th//100%10\==1)*(th//10<4)) /*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ iSqrt: parse arg x; $= 0; q= 1; do while q<=x; q=q*4; end
do while q>1; q=q%4; _= x-$-q; $= $%2; if _>=0 then do; x=_; $=$+q; end
end /*while q>1*/; return $</lang>
- output when using the input of: 8
1st rare number is: 65
2nd rare number is: 621,770
3rd rare number is: 281,089,082
4th rare number is: 2,022,652,202
5th rare number is: 2,042,832,002
6th rare number is: 868,591,084,757
7th rare number is: 872,546,974,178
8th rare number is: 872,568,754,178