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authordrbaggy <js5@sanger.ac.uk>2022-01-17 09:00:14 +0000
committerdrbaggy <js5@sanger.ac.uk>2022-01-17 09:00:14 +0000
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diff --git a/challenge-147/sgreen/python/ch-1.py b/challenge-147/sgreen/python/ch-1.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import math
+
+
+def is_prime(number):
+ # Return true or false if the number is a prime
+ if number < 2:
+ return False
+
+ for i in range(2, int(math.sqrt(number)) + 1):
+ if number % i == 0:
+ return False
+
+ # It's a prime
+ return True
+
+
+def is_trunc_prime(number):
+ # Return true or false if the number and all it's left truncated
+ # parts is a prime. Start with the smallest figure first
+ n = str(number)
+
+ if '0' in n:
+ # A left-truncatable prime cannot contain a zero
+ return False
+
+ for i in range(len(n), 0, -1):
+ if not is_prime(int(n[i - 1:])):
+ return False
+
+ return True
+
+
+def main():
+ solutions = []
+ number = 1
+
+ # Keep increasing number by one until we have twenty truncated prime
+ # numbers
+ while len(solutions) < 20:
+ if is_trunc_prime(number):
+ solutions.append(number)
+ number += 1
+
+ print(*solutions, sep=', ')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ main()
diff --git a/challenge-147/sgreen/python/ch-2.py b/challenge-147/sgreen/python/ch-2.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import math
+
+
+def pentagon_number(n):
+ return int(n * (3 * n - 1) / 2)
+
+
+def is_pentagon_number(x):
+ n = math.sqrt(24 * x + 1) + 1
+ return int(n / 6) if n % 6 == 0 else None
+
+
+def main():
+ n1 = 2
+ while True:
+ p1 = pentagon_number(n1)
+ for n2 in range(1, n1):
+ p2 = pentagon_number(n2)
+
+ s1 = is_pentagon_number(p1 + p2)
+ s2 = is_pentagon_number(p1 - p2)
+
+ if s1 is not None and s2 is not None:
+ print(f'P({n1}) + P({n2}) = {p1} + {p2} = { p1 + p2 } = P({s1})')
+ print(f'P({n1}) - P({n2}) = {p1} - {p2} = { p1 - p2 } = P({s2})')
+ return
+ n1 += 1
+
+
+main()