First power of 2 that has leading decimal digits of 12
(This task is taken from a Project Euler problem.)
(All numbers herein are expressed in base ten.)
27 = 128 and 7 is
the first power of 2 whose leading decimal digits are 12.
The next power of 2 whose leading decimal digits
are 12 is 80,
280 = 1208925819614629174706176.
Define p(L,n) to be the nth-smallest
value of j such that the base ten representation
of 2j begins with the digits of L .
So p(12, 1) = 7 and p(12, 2) = 80
You are also given that:
p(123, 45) = 12710
- Task
-
- find:
- p(12, 1)
- p(12, 2)
- p(123, 45)
- p(123, 12345)
- p(123, 678910)
- display the results here, on this page.
Go
A (more or less) brute force approach suffices for the first 3 parts of this task but a much quicker method is needed for the other two parts.
Based on some prior analysis I did, the first three powers of two to begin with "123" are: 2^90, 2^379 and 2^575. Notice that the respective difference in powers is 90, 289 and 196.
For higher powers, after a 196 difference, I found that the next difference in powers was either 289 or 485 (= 289 + 196), that 289 was always followed by a difference of 196 and that 485 was followed by either 196 or 485 again.
However, the numbers are so large here that (even using GMP) p(123, 12345) is still taking about 4.5 minutes to compute on my Core i7 and, judging by the REXX solution, p(123, 678910) would take well in excess of 4 hours.
- The REXX solution (on a 3.2GHz processor) took 275 seconds. 2193,060,223 has over 158 million digits. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 19:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC) (this msg to be removed later?)
I have therefore just completed the first 4 parts for now. <lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" big "github.com/ncw/gmp" "strconv" "strings"
)
func p123(n int) uint {
power, shift := uint(0), uint(90) one := big.NewInt(1) temp := new(big.Int) for count := 0; count < n; count++ { power += shift switch shift { case 90: shift = 289 case 289: shift = 196 case 196: shift = 289 temp.Set(one) temp.Lsh(temp, power+289) if !strings.HasPrefix(temp.String(), "123") { shift = 485 } case 485: shift = 196 temp.Set(one) temp.Lsh(temp, power+196) if !strings.HasPrefix(temp.String(), "123") { shift = 485 } } } return power
}
func p(L, n int) uint {
prefix := strconv.Itoa(L) if prefix == "123" { return p123(n) } count := 0 power, shift := uint(1), uint(1) i := big.NewInt(1) for { i := i.Lsh(i, shift) if strings.HasPrefix(i.String(), prefix) { count++ if count == n { break } shift = 4 // next number is going to be more than 8 times as big } else { shift = 1 } power += shift } return power
}
func commatize(n uint) string {
s := fmt.Sprintf("%d", n) le := len(s) for i := le - 3; i >= 1; i -= 3 { s = s[0:i] + "," + s[i:] } return s
}
func main() {
params := [][2]int{{12, 1}, {12, 2}, {123, 45}, {123, 12345},} // {123, 678910} } for _, param := range params { fmt.Printf("p(%d, %d) = %s\n", param[0], param[1], commatize(p(param[0], param[1]))) }
}</lang>
- Output:
p(12, 1) = 7 p(12, 2) = 80 p(123, 45) = 12,710 p(123, 12345) = 3,510,491
Pascal
First convert 2**i -> 10**x => x= ln(2)/ln(10) *i
The integer part of x is the position of the comma.Only the fraction of x leads to the digits.
Only the first digits are needed.So I think, the accuracy is sufficient, because the results are the same :-)
<lang pascal>program Power2FirstDigits;
uses
sysutils,strUtils;
const
ld10= ln(2)/ln(10);
function FindExp(CntLmt,Number:NativeUint):NativeUint; var
i,dgts,cnt: NativeUInt;
begin
i := Number; dgts := 1; while i >= 10 do Begin dgts *= 10; i := i div 10; end;
cnt := 0; i := 0; repeat inc(i); IF trunc(dgts*exp(ln(10)*frac(i*lD10))) = Number then Begin inc(cnt); IF cnt>= CntLmt then BREAK; end; until false; write('The ',Numb2USA(IntToStr(cnt)),'th occurrence of 2 raised to a power'); write(' whose product starts with "',Numb2USA(IntToStr(number))); writeln('" is ',Numb2USA(IntToStr(i))); FindExp := i;
end;
Begin
FindExp(1,12); FindExp(2,12);
FindExp(45,123); FindExp(12345,123); FindExp(678910,123);
end.
cnt := 0; CntLmt := 678910-10; for i := 1 to 193060223 do Begin x:= 100*exp(ln(10)*frac(i*lD10)); IF trunc(x) = 123 then Begin inc(cnt); IF cnt>= CntLmt then writeln(cnt:8,i:10,trunc(x):5) end; end;
end.</lang>
- Output:
The 1th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "12" is 7 The 2th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "12" is 80 The 45th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "123" is 12,710 The 12,345th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "123" is 3,510,491 The 678,910th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "123" is 193,060,223 //64Bit real 0m43,031s //32Bit real 0m13,363s
REXX
<lang rexx>/*REXX program computes powers of two whose leading decimal digits are "12" (in base 10)*/ parse arg L n b . /*obtain optional arguments from the CL*/ if L== | L=="," then L= 12 /*Not specified? Then use the default.*/ if n== | n=="," then n= 1 /* " " " " " " */ if b== | b=="," then b= 2 /* " " " " " " */ LL= length(L) /*obtain the length of L for compares*/ fd= left(L, 1) /*obtain the first dec. digit of L.*/ fr= substr(L, 2) /* " " rest of dec. digits " " */ numeric digits max(20, LL+2) /*use an appropriate value of dec. digs*/ rest= LL - 1 /*the length of the rest of the digits.*/
- = 0 /*the number of occurrences of a result*/
x= 1 /*start with a product of unity (B**0).*/
do j=1 until #==n; x= x * b /*raise B to a whole bunch of powers.*/ parse var x _ 2 /*obtain the first decimal digit of X.*/ if _ \== fd then iterate /*check only the 1st digit at this time*/ if LL>1 then do /*check the rest of the digits, maybe. */ $= format(x, , , , 0) /*express X in exponential format. */ parse var $ '.' +1 f +(rest) /*obtain the rest of the digits. */ if f \== fr then iterate /*verify that X has the rest of digs.*/ end /* [↓] found an occurrence of an answer*/ #= # + 1 /*bump the number of occurrences so far*/ end /*j*/
say 'The ' th(n) ' occurrence of ' b ' raised to a power whose product starts with' ,
' "'L"'" ' is ' commas(j).
exit /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */ /*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ commas: arg _; do c=length(_)-3 to 1 by -3; _= insert(',', _, c); end; return _ th: arg _; return _ || word('th st nd rd', 1 +_//10 * (_//100 % 10\==1) * (_//10 <4))</lang>
- output when using the inputs of: 12 1
The 1st occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "12' is 7.
- output when using the inputs of: 12 2
The 2nd occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "12' is 80.
- output when using the inputs of: 123 45
The 45th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "123' is 12,710.
- output when using the inputs of: 123 12345
The 12345th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "123' is 3,510,491.
- output when using the inputs of: 123 678910
The 678910th occurrence of 2 raised to a power whose product starts with "123' is 193,060,223.