""" Prime permutations Problem 49 The arithmetic sequence, 1487, 4817, 8147, in which each of the terms increases by 3330, is unusual in two ways: (i) each of the three terms are prime, (ii) each of the 4-digit numbers are permutations of one another. There are no arithmetic sequences made up of three 1-, 2-, or 3-digit primes, exhibiting this property, but there is one other 4-digit increasing sequence. What 12-digit number do you form by concatenating the three terms in this sequence? Solution: First, we need to generate all 4 digits prime numbers. Then greedy all of them and use permutation to form new numbers. Use binary search to check if the permutated numbers is in our prime list and include them in a candidate list. After that, bruteforce all passed candidates sequences using 3 nested loops since we know the answer will be 12 digits. The bruteforce of this solution will be about 1 sec. """ from itertools import permutations from math import floor, sqrt def is_prime(number: int) -> bool: """ function to check whether the number is prime or not. >>> is_prime(2) True >>> is_prime(6) False >>> is_prime(1) False >>> is_prime(-800) False >>> is_prime(104729) True """ if number < 2: return False for i in range(2, floor(sqrt(number)) + 1): if number % i == 0: return False return True def search(target: int, prime_list: list) -> bool: """ function to search a number in a list using Binary Search. >>> search(3, [1, 2, 3]) True >>> search(4, [1, 2, 3]) False >>> search(101, list(range(-100, 100))) False """ left, right = 0, len(prime_list) - 1 while left <= right: middle = (left + right) // 2 if prime_list[middle] == target: return True elif prime_list[middle] < target: left = middle + 1 else: right = middle - 1 return False def solution(): """ Return the solution of the problem. >>> solution() 296962999629 """ prime_list = [n for n in range(1001, 10000, 2) if is_prime(n)] candidates = [] for number in prime_list: tmp_numbers = [] for prime_member in permutations(list(str(number))): prime = int("".join(prime_member)) if prime % 2 == 0: continue if search(prime, prime_list): tmp_numbers.append(prime) tmp_numbers.sort() if len(tmp_numbers) >= 3: candidates.append(tmp_numbers) passed = [] for candidate in candidates: length = len(candidate) found = False for i in range(length): for j in range(i + 1, length): for k in range(j + 1, length): if ( abs(candidate[i] - candidate[j]) == abs(candidate[j] - candidate[k]) and len({candidate[i], candidate[j], candidate[k]}) == 3 ): passed.append( sorted([candidate[i], candidate[j], candidate[k]]) ) found = True if found: break if found: break if found: break answer = set() for seq in passed: answer.add("".join([str(i) for i in seq])) return max(int(x) for x in answer) if __name__ == "__main__": print(solution())