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Problem 248: Numbers for which Euler's totient function equals 13!
(see projecteuler.net/problem=248)
The first number n for which phi(n)=13! is 6227180929.
Find the 150,000th such number.
My Algorithm
There are two basic properties of Euler's totient function phi(x) (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_totient_function):
(1) phi(p) = p - 1 if p is a prime
(2) phi(a b) = phi(a) phi(b) if a and b are coprime
Every number can be split uniquely into its prime factors.
My program transforms phi(x) = 13! such that phi(x) = phi(d_1 * d_2 * ... * d_n) = phi(d_1) * phi(d_2) * ... * phi(d_n) = D_1 * D_2 * ... * D_n.
If I find all divisors of 13! and partition them in such a way that 13! = D_1 * D_2 * ... D_n I can apply rule (1) and/or (2).
For example, if for some divisor I can show that D_i + 1 is prime then according to (1):
(3) D_i + 1 = phi(p_1) + 1 = (p_i - 1) = p_i
So I have found a prime factor D_i + 1 of a potential number n where phi(n) = 13!
Factorizing 13! gives us:
(4) 13! = 2^10 * 3^5 * 5^2 * 7 * 11 * 13
Now I iterate over all divisors of 13! and check whether D_i + 1 is prime (see findCandidates
).
All those numbers are stored in the container candidates
.
Then I combine the candidates until the product of their totients yields 13! (see search
).
By the way: I needed a few minutes to realize that some candidates can appear multiple times in the product.
The problem statement says that 6227180929 is the smallest number where phi(x) = 13!:
(5) 6227180929 = 66529 * 93601 = (66528 + 1) * (93600 + 1)
(6) 66528 = 2^5 * 3^3 * 7 * 11
(7) 93600 = 2^5 * 3^2 * 5^2 * 13
(8) 66528 * 93600 = 6227020800 = 13!
And indeed, my program finds 13!'s divisors 66528 and 93600 (among others) because their successor is a prime and combines them.
Sorting those roughly 180000 numbers finishes almost instantly but I went the crazy way and preferred
std::nth_element
because it is a little bit more efficient - but you can't measure the performance advantage ...
Note
A huge part of my code consists of my standard Miller-Rabin prime test which I just copied from my toolbox.
Interactive test
You can submit your own input to my program and it will be instantly processed at my server:
This is equivalent toecho "13 1" | ./248
Output:
Note: the original problem's input 13 150000
cannot be entered
because just copying results is a soft skill reserved for idiots.
(this interactive test is still under development, computations will be aborted after one second)
My code
… was written in C++11 and can be compiled with G++, Clang++, Visual C++. You can download it, too. Or just jump to my GitHub repository.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <algorithm>
// ---------- Miller-Rabin prime test from my toolbox ----------
// return (a*b) % modulo
unsigned long long mulmod(unsigned long long a, unsigned long long b, unsigned long long modulo)
{
// (a * b) % modulo = (a % modulo) * (b % modulo) % modulo
a %= modulo;
b %= modulo;
// fast path
if (a <= 0xFFFFFFF && b <= 0xFFFFFFF)
return (a * b) % modulo;
// we might encounter overflows (slow path)
// the number of loops depends on b, therefore try to minimize b
if (b > a)
std::swap(a, b);
// bitwise multiplication
unsigned long long result = 0;
while (a > 0 && b > 0)
{
// b is odd ? a*b = a + a*(b-1)
if (b & 1)
{
result += a;
if (result >= modulo)
result -= modulo;
// skip b-- because the bit-shift at the end will remove the lowest bit anyway
}
// b is even ? a*b = (2*a)*(b/2)
a <<= 1;
if (a >= modulo)
a -= modulo;
// next bit
b >>= 1;
}
return result;
}
// return (base^exponent) % modulo
unsigned long long powmod(unsigned long long base, unsigned long long exponent, unsigned long long modulo)
{
unsigned long long result = 1;
while (exponent > 0)
{
// fast exponentation:
// odd exponent ? a^b = a*a^(b-1)
if (exponent & 1)
result = mulmod(result, base, modulo);
// even exponent ? a^b = (a*a)^(b/2)
base = mulmod(base, base, modulo);
exponent >>= 1;
}
return result;
}
// Miller-Rabin-test
bool isPrime(unsigned long long p)
{
// IMPORTANT: requires mulmod(a, b, modulo) and powmod(base, exponent, modulo)
// some code from https://ronzii.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/miller-rabin-primality-test/
// with optimizations from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1326/020-Forisek.pdf
// good bases can be found at http://miller-rabin.appspot.com/
// trivial cases
const unsigned int bitmaskPrimes2to31 = (1 << 2) | (1 << 3) | (1 << 5) | (1 << 7) |
(1 << 11) | (1 << 13) | (1 << 17) | (1 << 19) |
(1 << 23) | (1 << 29); // = 0x208A28Ac
if (p < 31)
return (bitmaskPrimes2to31 & (1 << p)) != 0;
if (p % 2 == 0 || p % 3 == 0 || p % 5 == 0 || p % 7 == 0 || // divisible by a small prime
p % 11 == 0 || p % 13 == 0 || p % 17 == 0)
return false;
if (p < 17 * 19) // we filtered all composite numbers < 17*19, all others below 17*19 must be prime
return true;
// test p against those numbers ("witnesses")
// good bases can be found at http://miller-rabin.appspot.com/
const unsigned int STOP = 0;
const unsigned int TestAgainst1[] = { 377687, STOP };
const unsigned int TestAgainst2[] = { 31, 73, STOP };
const unsigned int TestAgainst3[] = { 2, 7, 61, STOP };
// first three sequences are good up to 2^32
const unsigned int TestAgainst4[] = { 2, 13, 23, 1662803, STOP };
const unsigned int TestAgainst7[] = { 2, 325, 9375, 28178, 450775, 9780504, 1795265022, STOP };
// good up to 2^64
const unsigned int* testAgainst = TestAgainst7;
// use less tests if feasible
if (p < 5329)
testAgainst = TestAgainst1;
else if (p < 9080191)
testAgainst = TestAgainst2;
else if (p < 4759123141ULL)
testAgainst = TestAgainst3;
else if (p < 1122004669633ULL)
testAgainst = TestAgainst4;
// find p - 1 = d * 2^j
auto d = p - 1;
d >>= 1;
unsigned int shift = 0;
while ((d & 1) == 0)
{
shift++;
d >>= 1;
}
// test p against all bases
do
{
auto x = powmod(*testAgainst++, d, p);
// is test^d % p == 1 or -1 ?
if (x == 1 || x == p - 1)
continue;
// now either prime or a strong pseudo-prime
// check test^(d*2^r) for 0 <= r < shift
bool maybePrime = false;
for (unsigned int r = 0; r < shift; r++)
{
// x = x^2 % p
// (initial x was test^d)
x = mulmod(x, x, p);
// x % p == 1 => not prime
if (x == 1)
return false;
// x % p == -1 => prime or an even stronger pseudo-prime
if (x == p - 1)
{
// next iteration
maybePrime = true;
break;
}
}
// not prime
if (!maybePrime)
return false;
} while (*testAgainst != STOP);
// prime
return true;
}
// ---------- problem-specific code ----------
// will be 13!
unsigned long long factorial = 1;
// factorized 13! such such factors[2] = 10; etc.
std::map<unsigned int, unsigned int> factors;
// all primes where prime-1 is a divisor of 13!
std::set<unsigned int> candidates;
// all x where phi(x) = 13!
std::vector<unsigned long long> results;
// "build" all numbers using the prime factors in "factors"
// if number + 1 is prime then store as a candidate
void findCandidates(unsigned long long number = 1, unsigned int lastPrime = 1)
{
// all primes consumed ?
auto nextPrime = factors.upper_bound(lastPrime);
if (nextPrime == factors.end())
{
// check if successor is prime
if (isPrime(number + 1))
candidates.insert(number + 1);
return;
}
// process all combinations recursively
auto base = nextPrime->first;
auto exponent = nextPrime->second;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i <= exponent; i++)
{
findCandidates(number, base);
number *= base;
}
}
// look for all number with phi(x) = 13!
void search(unsigned long long number = 1, unsigned long long phi = 1,
unsigned int largestPrime = 1)
{
// find next prime (or increase the exponent of the latest prime)
auto from = candidates.lower_bound(largestPrime);
for (auto i = from; i != candidates.end(); i++)
{
// current prime
auto current = *i;
// include one more prime factor
auto nextNumber = number * current;
// phi(prime) = prime - 1
auto nextPhi = phi * (current - 1);
// phi(prime^x) = phi(prime^(x-1)) * prime
if (current == largestPrime)
nextPhi += phi; // phi * current = phi * (current - 1) + phi
// too large ?
if (nextPhi > factorial)
break;
// match ?
if (nextPhi == factorial)
{
results.push_back(nextNumber);
break;
}
// keep going if 13! is still reachable
if (factorial % nextPhi == 0)
search(nextNumber, nextPhi, current);
}
}
int main()
{
unsigned int thirteen = 13;
unsigned int index = 150000;
std::cin >> thirteen >> index;
// compute 13!
factorial = 1;
for (unsigned int i = 2; i <= thirteen; i++)
factorial *= i;
// and factorize it
auto reduce = factorial;
for (unsigned int i = 2; i <= thirteen; i++)
while (reduce % i == 0)
{
factors[i]++;
reduce /= i;
}
// generate all primes whose predecessor is a divisor of 13!
findCandidates();
// find all numbers with eulerphi() = 13!
search();
// array is zero-indexed
index--;
// partial sort: only need the 150000th to be at its correct position
auto pos = results.begin() + index;
std::nth_element(results.begin(), pos, results.end());
// (I could have used std::sort as well, but std::nth_element is a tiny bit faster in this case)
std::cout << *pos << std::endl;
return 0;
}
This solution contains 38 empty lines, 64 comments and 5 preprocessor commands.
Benchmark
The correct solution to the original Project Euler problem was found in 0.7 seconds on an Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz.
Peak memory usage was about 4 MByte.
(compiled for x86_64 / Linux, GCC flags: -O3 -march=native -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -std=gnu++11 -DORIGINAL
)
See here for a comparison of all solutions.
Note: interactive tests run on a weaker (=slower) computer. Some interactive tests are compiled without -DORIGINAL
.
Changelog
November 12, 2017 submitted solution
November 12, 2017 added comments
Difficulty
Project Euler ranks this problem at 70% (out of 100%).
Links
projecteuler.net/thread=248 - the best forum on the subject (note: you have to submit the correct solution first)
Code in various languages:
Python github.com/LaurentMazare/ProjectEuler/blob/master/e248.py (written by Laurent Mazare)
Python github.com/Meng-Gen/ProjectEuler/blob/master/248.py (written by Meng-Gen Tsai)
C++ github.com/roosephu/project-euler/blob/master/248.cpp (written by Yuping Luo)
Java github.com/thrap/project-euler/blob/master/src/Java/Problem248.java (written by Magnus Solheim Thrap)
Mathematica github.com/steve98654/ProjectEuler/blob/master/248.nb
Those links are just an unordered selection of source code I found with a semi-automatic search script on Google/Bing/GitHub/whatever.
You will probably stumble upon better solutions when searching on your own.
Maybe not all linked resources produce the correct result and/or exceed time/memory limits.
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