#= Created on 28 Jul 2021 @author: David Doblas Jiménez @email: daviddoji@pm.me Solution for Problem 17 of Project Euler https://projecteuler.net/problem=17 =# function num2letters(num) nums = Dict( 0 => "", 1 => "one", 2 => "two", 3 => "three", 4 => "four", 5 => "five", 6 => "six", 7 => "seven", 8 => "eight", 9 => "nine", 10 => "ten", 11 => "eleven", 12 => "twelve", 13 => "thirteen", 14 => "fourteen", 15 => "fifteen", 16 => "sixteen", 17 => "seventeen", 18 => "eighteen", 19 => "nineteen", 20 => "twenty", 30 => "thirty", 40 => "forty", 50 => "fifty", 60 => "sixty", 70 => "seventy", 80 => "eighty", 90 => "ninety", 100 => "hundred", 1000 => "thousand" ) if num <= 20 return length(nums[num]) elseif num < 100 tens, units = divrem(num, 10) return length(nums[tens * 10]) + num2letters(units) elseif num < 1000 hundreds, rest = divrem(num, 100) if rest != 0 return num2letters(hundreds) + length(nums[100]) + length("and") + num2letters(rest) else return num2letters(hundreds) + length(nums[100]) end else thousands, rest = divrem(num, 1000) return num2letters(thousands) + length(nums[1000]) end end function Problem17() #= If the numbers 1 to 5 are written out in words: one, two, three, four, five, then there are 3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 19 letters used in total. If all the numbers from 1 to 1000 (one thousand) inclusive were written out in words, how many letters would be used? NOTE: Do not count spaces or hyphens. For example, 342 (three hundred and forty-two) contains 23 letters and 115 (one hundred and fifteen) contains 20 letters. The use of "and" when writing out numbers is in compliance with British usage. =# n = 1000 letters = 0 for num in 1:n letters += num2letters(num) end return letters end println("Time to evaluate Problem 17:") @time Problem17() println("") println("Result for Problem 17: ", Problem17())