Saturday, September 19, 2009

Euler Project 42


The nth term of the sequence of triangle numbers is given by, tn = ½n(n+1); so the first ten triangle numbers are:



1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, ...



By converting each letter in a word to a number corresponding to its alphabetical position and adding these values we form a word value. For example, the word value for SKY is 19 + 11 + 25 = 55 = t10. If the word value is a triangle number then we shall call the word a triangle word.



Using words.txt (right click and 'Save Link/Target As...'), a 16K text file containing nearly two-thousand common English words, how many are triangle words?








My Solution Using Mathematica



TripleNumList = Table[i*(i + 1)/2, {i, 200}];





For[i = 1, i < NumberOfWords + 1, i++, 


 If[MemberQ[TripleNumList, 


   Total[Map[# - 64 &, ToCharacterCode[fs[[i]]]]]], NumberT++]]




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