""" Project Euler Problem 58:https://projecteuler.net/problem=58 Starting with 1 and spiralling anticlockwise in the following way, a square spiral with side length 7 is formed. 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 38 17 16 15 14 13 30 39 18 5 4 3 12 29 40 19 6 1 2 11 28 41 20 7 8 9 10 27 42 21 22 23 24 25 26 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 It is interesting to note that the odd squares lie along the bottom right diagonal ,but what is more interesting is that 8 out of the 13 numbers lying along both diagonals are prime; that is, a ratio of 8/13 ≈ 62%. If one complete new layer is wrapped around the spiral above, a square spiral with side length 9 will be formed. If this process is continued, what is the side length of the square spiral for which the ratio of primes along both diagonals first falls below 10%? Solution: We have to find an odd length side for which square falls below 10%. With every layer we add 4 elements are being added to the diagonals ,lets say we have a square spiral of odd length with side length j, then if we move from j to j+2, we are adding j*j+j+1,j*j+2*(j+1),j*j+3*(j+1) j*j+4*(j+1). Out of these 4 only the first three can become prime because last one reduces to (j+2)*(j+2). So we check individually each one of these before incrementing our count of current primes. """ import math def is_prime(number: int) -> bool: """Checks to see if a number is a prime in O(sqrt(n)). A number is prime if it has exactly two factors: 1 and itself. >>> is_prime(0) False >>> is_prime(1) False >>> is_prime(2) True >>> is_prime(3) True >>> is_prime(27) False >>> is_prime(87) False >>> is_prime(563) True >>> is_prime(2999) True >>> is_prime(67483) False """ if 1 < number < 4: # 2 and 3 are primes return True elif number < 2 or number % 2 == 0 or number % 3 == 0: # Negatives, 0, 1, all even numbers, all multiples of 3 are not primes return False # All primes number are in format of 6k +/- 1 for i in range(5, int(math.sqrt(number) + 1), 6): if number % i == 0 or number % (i + 2) == 0: return False return True def solution(ratio: float = 0.1) -> int: """ Returns the side length of the square spiral of odd length greater than 1 for which the ratio of primes along both diagonals first falls below the given ratio. >>> solution(.5) 11 >>> solution(.2) 309 >>> solution(.111) 11317 """ j = 3 primes = 3 while primes / (2 * j - 1) >= ratio: for i in range(j * j + j + 1, (j + 2) * (j + 2), j + 1): primes += is_prime(i) j += 2 return j if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()