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Problem 504: Square on the Inside
(see projecteuler.net/problem=504)
Let ABCD be a quadrilateral whose vertices are lattice points lying on the coordinate axes as follows:
A(a, 0), B(0, b), C(-c, 0), D(0, -d), where 1 <= a, b, c, d <= m and a, b, c, d, m are integers.
It can be shown that for m = 4 there are exactly 256 valid ways to construct ABCD.
Of these 256 quadrilaterals, 42 of them strictly contain a square number of lattice points.
How many quadrilaterals ABCD strictly contain a square number of lattice points for m = 100?
My Algorithm
Pick's theorem states A = i + b/2 - 1 (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick's_theorem):
if a simple polygon has i interior integer points and b boundary integer points, then A must be a perfect square to match the conditions of the problem.
So all I have to do is finding i and b - that's what my function countLatticePoints
is for.
The bounding box that enclosed the quadrilateral and is parallel to the x- and y-axis has an area of
ab + bc + cd + ad = a(b + d) + c(b + d) = (a + c)(b + d)
The four triangles cover only half the area of the bounding box. My variable inside
equals i of the formula:
i = dfrac{1}{2} (a + c)(b + d)
The boundary integer points can be subdivided into two groups:
- 4 corners A(a, 0), B(0, b), C(-c, 0), D(0, -d)
- the edges between A and B, B and C, C and D, D and A
And there are gcd(x,y) + 1 such integer lattice points: the origin plus all multiples of k * ( dfrac{x}{gcd(x,y)}, dfrac{y}{gcd(x,y)} ).
However, each corner appears twice: A in AB and DA, B in AB and BC, ...
Using just gcd(x,y) (without minus one) solves this problem.
Unfortunately, my results of
countLatticePoints
were off by 4:the corners A, B, C and D are not part of the original bounding-box and must be subtracted, too.
Alternative Approaches
There are many symmetries. For example I could assume a <= b and reduce the search space accordingly.
Note
I set up a few caches to speed up the computations considerably:
- the same GCDs have to by computed quite many times, therefore I store them in
pointsOnEdge
sqrt
is pretty slow and a simple containerisSquare
stores atrue
flag for each square up to the largest area of an quadrilateral (100,100,100,100) → about 20000.
Interactive test
You can submit your own input to my program and it will be instantly processed at my server:
This is equivalent toecho 4 | ./504
Output:
Note: the original problem's input 100
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>
// cache gcd(a,b)
std::vector<std::vector<unsigned int>> pointsOnEdge;
// greatest common divisor
template <typename T>
T gcd(T a, T b)
{
while (a != 0)
{
T c = a;
a = b % a;
b = c;
}
return b;
}
// count lattice points with Pick's theorem
// A(a, 0), B(b, 0), C(-c, 0), D(-d, 0)
unsigned int countLatticePoints(unsigned int a, unsigned int b, unsigned int c, unsigned int d)
{
// Pick's theorem: A = i + b/2 - 1
// where i is the area inside the quadrilateral
// and b is the number of lattice points on the boundary
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick%27s_theorem
// total area of the bounding box
auto rectangle = (a + c) * (b + d);
// only half of the area belongs to the quadrilateral
auto inside = rectangle / 2;
// points on the edges of the quadrilateral
auto boundary = pointsOnEdge[a][b] + pointsOnEdge[b][c] + pointsOnEdge[c][d] + pointsOnEdge[a][d];
// the four corners are not inside the bounding box (they are on its edges)
boundary -= 4;
// Pick's formula
return inside - (boundary / 2) - 1;
}
int main()
{
unsigned int limit = 100;
std::cin >> limit;
// precompute number of lattice points lying exactly on the sides/edges
pointsOnEdge.resize(limit + 1);
for (auto& x : pointsOnEdge)
x.resize(limit + 1);
for (unsigned int a = 1; a <= limit; a++)
for (unsigned int b = 1; b <= limit; b++)
// note: only one endpoint is included for each edge
// e.g. a=4 b=2 gcd(4,2)=2
// => has actually 3 lattice points:
// both endpoints plus point (3,1)
// but each endpoint is part of two edges therefore it would be counted twice
// that means that keeping only one endpoint is okay and much simpler
pointsOnEdge[a][b] = pointsOnEdge[b][a] = gcd(a, b);
// precompute square numbers
// note: std::vector<bool> would be sufficient but std::vector<char> is about 20% faster
std::vector<unsigned char> isSquare(countLatticePoints(limit, limit, limit, limit) + 1, false);
for (size_t i = 1; i*i < isSquare.size(); i++)
isSquare[i*i] = true;
// plain enumeration of all combinations, 100^4 = 10^8 iterations
auto count = 0;
for (unsigned int a = 1; a <= limit; a++)
for (unsigned int b = 1; b <= limit; b++)
for (unsigned int c = 1; c <= limit; c++)
for (unsigned int d = 1; d <= limit; d++)
// count only perfect squares
if (isSquare[countLatticePoints(a, b, c, d)])
count++;
// display result
std::cout << count << std::endl;
return 0;
}
This solution contains 11 empty lines, 25 comments and 2 preprocessor commands.
Benchmark
The correct solution to the original Project Euler problem was found in 0.22 seconds on an Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz.
(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
August 11, 2017 submitted solution
August 11, 2017 added comments
Difficulty
Project Euler ranks this problem at 15% (out of 100%).
Links
projecteuler.net/thread=504 - the best forum on the subject (note: you have to submit the correct solution first)
Code in various languages:
Python github.com/Meng-Gen/ProjectEuler/blob/master/504.py (written by Meng-Gen Tsai)
C++ github.com/evilmucedin/project-euler/blob/master/euler504/504.cpp (written by Den Raskovalov)
C++ github.com/roosephu/project-euler/blob/master/504.cpp (written by Yuping Luo)
C++ github.com/smacke/project-euler/blob/master/cpp/504.cpp (written by Stephen Macke)
Java github.com/thrap/project-euler/blob/master/src/Java/Problem504.java (written by Magnus Solheim Thrap)
Perl github.com/shlomif/project-euler/blob/master/project-euler/504/euler-504-v1.pl (written by Shlomi Fish)
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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