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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Created on 26 Jul 2021
@author: David Doblas Jiménez
@email: daviddoji@pm.me
Solution for problem 042 of Project Euler
https://projecteuler.net/problem=42
"""
from pathlib import Path
from utils import timeit
def triangle_number(num):
return int(0.5 * num * (num + 1))
def word_to_value(word):
return sum(ord(letter) - 64 for letter in word)
@timeit("Problem 042")
def compute():
"""
The nth term of the sequence of triangle numbers is given by,
tn = n(n+1)/2; so the first ten triangle numbers are:
1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, ...
By converting each letter in a word to a number corresponding to its
alphabetical position and adding these values we form a word value. For
example, the word value for SKY is 19 + 11 + 25 = 55 = t10. If the word
value is a triangle number then we shall call the word a triangle word.
Using words.txt, a 16K text file containing nearly two-thousand common
English words, how many are triangle words?
"""
triangular_numbers = [triangle_number(n) for n in range(27)]
ans = 0
file = Path("files/Problem42.txt")
with open(file, "r") as f:
words = f.readline().strip('"').split('","')
for word in words:
if word_to_value(word) in triangular_numbers:
ans += 1
return ans
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(f"Result for Problem 042: {compute()}")