Monday, August 17, 2009

Euler Project 55

If we take 47, reverse and add, 47 + 74 = 121, which is palindromic. Not all numbers produce palindromes so quickly. For example,
349 + 943 = 1292,
1292 + 2921 = 4213
4213 + 3124 = 7337

That is, 349 took three iterations to arrive at a palindrome.
Although no one has proved it yet, it is thought that some numbers, like 196, never produce a palindrome. A number that never forms a palindrome through the reverse and add process is called a Lychrel number. Due to the theoretical nature of these numbers, and for the purpose of this problem, we shall assume that a number is Lychrel until proven otherwise. In addition you are given that for every number below ten-thousand, it will either (i) become a palindrome in less than fifty iterations, or, (ii) no one, with all the computing power that exists, has managed so far to map it to a palindrome. In fact, 10677 is the first number to be shown to require over fifty iterations before producing a palindrome: 4668731596684224866951378664 (53 iterations, 28-digits).
Surprisingly, there are palindromic numbers that are themselves Lychrel numbers; the first example is 4994.
How many Lychrel numbers are there below ten-thousand?
NOTE: Wording was modified slightly on 24 April 2007 to emphasise the theoretical nature of Lychrel numbers.
My Solution

(defun palindrome(n)


(let ((numberstr (format nil "~a" n)))
(string= numberstr (reverse numberstr))))

(defun IsLychrel(n)
(let ((IsLychrelnum T)
(Init n))
(loop for i from 1 to 50
do (if (palindrome (+ Init
(parse-integer (reverse (format nil "~a" Init))
:start 0
:end (length (format nil "~a" Init)))))
(setq IsLychrelnum nil)
(incf Init
(parse-integer (reverse (format nil "~a" Init))
:start 0
:end (length (format nil "~a" Init))))))
IsLychrelnum))

(defun Euler55()
(loop for i from 1 to 10000
when (IsLychrel i)
sum 1 ))

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