There are 40 ways to make sums of three distinct positive integers total 25. (1+2+22 is such a sum, but 1+12+12 and 1+2+3+19 are not.)
How many different ways can three distinct positive integers sum to 1000?
(In reply to
re: With a little help from awk by Sing4TheDay)
I don't know how the awk program got the correct answer, but the following Basic program, using the correct inequality, gives the same answer, 82834:
FOR a = 1 TO 1000
FOR b = a + 1 TO 1000
c = 1000 - a - b
IF c > b THEN total = total + 1
NEXT
NEXT
PRINT total
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Posted by Charlie
on 2004-07-22 10:45:04 |
re(2): With a little help from awk
