Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Project Euler Solution using C#: Problem 28 : Number Spiral Diagonals

Problem:

Starting with the number 1 and moving to the right in a clockwise direction a 5 by 5 spiral is formed as follows:

21 22 23 24 25
20 7 8 9 10
19 6 1 2 11
18 5 4 3 12
17 16 15 14 13

It can be verified that the sum of the numbers on the diagonals is 101.

What is the sum of the numbers on the diagonals in a 1001 by 1001 spiral formed in the same way?
My Solution:

  1. static void Main(string[] args)
  2. {
  3. static void Main(string[] args)
  4. {
  5. int limit = 1001 * 1001;
  6. int count = 0;
  7. int loopCount = 2;
  8.  
  9. int sum = 1; //1 coz the centervalue is 1. In loop counting from 3.
  10. // every 4 iteration the increment count is adding +2
  11. for (int i = 3; i <= limit; i += loopCount)
  12. {
  13. sum += i;
  14. count += 1;
  15. if (count >= 4)
  16. {
  17. loopCount += 2;
  18. count = 0;
  19. }
  20. }
  21. Console.WriteLine(sum);
  22. Console.ReadLine();
  23. }
  24. }

Note: You can simplifies the coding :)

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