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106 lines
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Python
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Project Euler Problem 86: https://projecteuler.net/problem=86
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A spider, S, sits in one corner of a cuboid room, measuring 6 by 5 by 3, and a fly, F,
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sits in the opposite corner. By travelling on the surfaces of the room the shortest
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"straight line" distance from S to F is 10 and the path is shown on the diagram.
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However, there are up to three "shortest" path candidates for any given cuboid and the
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shortest route doesn't always have integer length.
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It can be shown that there are exactly 2060 distinct cuboids, ignoring rotations, with
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integer dimensions, up to a maximum size of M by M by M, for which the shortest route
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has integer length when M = 100. This is the least value of M for which the number of
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solutions first exceeds two thousand; the number of solutions when M = 99 is 1975.
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Find the least value of M such that the number of solutions first exceeds one million.
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Solution:
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Label the 3 side-lengths of the cuboid a,b,c such that 1 <= a <= b <= c <= M.
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By conceptually "opening up" the cuboid and laying out its faces on a plane,
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it can be seen that the shortest distance between 2 opposite corners is
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sqrt((a+b)^2 + c^2). This distance is an integer if and only if (a+b),c make up
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the first 2 sides of a pythagorean triplet.
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The second useful insight is rather than calculate the number of cuboids
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with integral shortest distance for each maximum cuboid side-length M,
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we can calculate this number iteratively each time we increase M, as follows.
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The set of cuboids satisfying this property with maximum side-length M-1 is a
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subset of the cuboids satisfying the property with maximum side-length M
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(since any cuboids with side lengths <= M-1 are also <= M). To calculate the
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number of cuboids in the larger set (corresponding to M) we need only consider
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the cuboids which have at least one side of length M. Since we have ordered the
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side lengths a <= b <= c, we can assume that c = M. Then we just need to count
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the number of pairs a,b satisfying the conditions:
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sqrt((a+b)^2 + M^2) is integer
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1 <= a <= b <= M
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To count the number of pairs (a,b) satisfying these conditions, write d = a+b.
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Now we have:
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1 <= a <= b <= M => 2 <= d <= 2*M
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we can actually make the second equality strict,
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since d = 2*M => d^2 + M^2 = 5M^2
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=> shortest distance = M * sqrt(5)
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=> not integral.
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a + b = d => b = d - a
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and a <= b
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=> a <= d/2
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also a <= M
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=> a <= min(M, d//2)
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a + b = d => a = d - b
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and b <= M
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=> a >= d - M
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also a >= 1
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=> a >= max(1, d - M)
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So a is in range(max(1, d - M), min(M, d // 2) + 1)
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For a given d, the number of cuboids satisfying the required property with c = M
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and a + b = d is the length of this range, which is
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min(M, d // 2) + 1 - max(1, d - M).
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In the code below, d is sum_shortest_sides
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and M is max_cuboid_size.
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"""
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from math import sqrt
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def solution(limit: int = 1000000) -> int:
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"""
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Return the least value of M such that there are more than one million cuboids
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of side lengths 1 <= a,b,c <= M such that the shortest distance between two
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opposite vertices of the cuboid is integral.
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>>> solution(100)
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24
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>>> solution(1000)
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72
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>>> solution(2000)
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100
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>>> solution(20000)
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288
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"""
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num_cuboids: int = 0
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max_cuboid_size: int = 0
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sum_shortest_sides: int
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while num_cuboids <= limit:
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max_cuboid_size += 1
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for sum_shortest_sides in range(2, 2 * max_cuboid_size + 1):
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if sqrt(sum_shortest_sides ** 2 + max_cuboid_size ** 2).is_integer():
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num_cuboids += (
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min(max_cuboid_size, sum_shortest_sides // 2)
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- max(1, sum_shortest_sides - max_cuboid_size)
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+ 1
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)
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return max_cuboid_size
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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print(f"{solution() = }")
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