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Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000

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bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 25, 2012 4:29:06 AM UTC-5, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> > arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> wrote:
> > > AIM: To write a program to add all natural numbers below 1000 that are 
> > > multiples of 3 or 5.
> > 
> > > WHAT I GOT:  it works
> > 
> > > Question-1:  Look at the for loop, instead of looping for 1000 times and 
> > > checking the value inside, I am simply looping it 1000/3 = 333 times. Ist 
> > > that impressive ?
> > 
> > > Question-2: Can it be improved ?

[snipped]

> > No loops involved, so computation time doesn't depend on the
> > upper limit;-)

> Bravo.  Good job.

Actually, Ike Naar posted the same solution two days earlier -
I was just too inattentive to notice it:-( And your's at least
showed the same basic idea, just using Gauss' formula had to be
added;-)
                             Regards, Jens
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Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2012-05-23 11:03 +0000
  Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2012-05-23 13:30 +0200
  Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 "H.J. Sander Bruggink" <sander.bruggink@uni-due.de> - 2012-05-23 14:11 +0200
    Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2012-05-23 12:44 +0000
      Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-23 13:55 +0000
      Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-05-23 06:56 -0700
  Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-05-25 09:29 +0000
    Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-05-25 06:26 -0700
      Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-05-26 21:52 +0000
  Re: Project Euler - add all natural numbers below 1000 "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 01:52 +0100

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