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Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)?

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John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> writes:
> It's frustrating because I have the Python right, but I'm getting
> stuck on the math....
> "What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all
> of the numbers from 1 to 20?"

The answer is lcm [1,2,3, ... 20].  You can figure out how to implement
lcm.

The Euler problems are not really programming exercises.  They are
exercises in math and algorithms.  Quite a lot of them involve thinking
clever and fast ways to do stuff that would be trivial (but too slow) by
brute force.  In general, once you figure out the right algorithm,
writing the code is easy.  But you have to be fairly mathematically
attuned, to have any chance of spotting the algorithm.

If you want programming exercises that are less mathematical, there are
some nice ones at rubyquiz.com.  They are intended for Ruby but of
course you can solve them in Python.

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How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 12:48 -0700
  Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 14:02 -0600
  Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-21 22:10 +0200
    sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Irmen de Jong <irmen@-NOSPAM-xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-21 22:22 +0200
      Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 14:09 -0700
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        Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 15:41 -0600
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        Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-21 17:05 -0700
          Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 18:21 -0700
            Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-21 19:09 -0700
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            Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-06-21 23:02 -0400
              Re: sorry, possibly too much info. was: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 20:41 -0700
  Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)? Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-06-21 16:19 -0400
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