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Numbered Letters IV (Posted on 2015-10-26) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Suppose A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., Z=26.
1. What numbers add up to their own values if "and" is used in numbers greater than 100 but not divisible by 100?
2. What numbers add up to their own values if "and" is not used in numbers greater than 100 but not divisible by 100?

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Solution computer solution | Comment 1 of 3
DECLARE FUNCTION verify! (s1$, s2$)
DECLARE SUB EnterNum ()
DECLARE SUB ProcPiece (piece$, MajorPower!)
DATA one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine
DATA ten,eleven,twelve,thirteen,fourteen,fifteen,sixteen,seventeen
DATA eighteen,nineteen
DATA twenty,thirty,forty,fifty,sixty,seventy,eighty,ninety
DATA thousand,million,billion,trillion,quadrillion,quintillion,sextillion
DIM SHARED unit$(19), ten$(10), major$(7)
FOR i = 1 TO 19
    READ unit$(i)
NEXT
FOR i = 2 TO 9
    READ ten$(i)
NEXT
FOR i = 1 TO 7
    READ major$(i)
NEXT
DIM SHARED name$, num$
'DO
CLS
FOR n = 1 TO 150000
    ' IF n / 10 = INT(n / 10) THEN PRINT n;
    num$ = LTRIM$(RTRIM$(STR$(n)))

    IF num$ = "0" THEN
        name$ = "zero"
    ELSE
        name$ = ""
        MajorPower = 0
        DO
            l = LEN(num$): IF l > 3 THEN l = 3
            piece$ = RIGHT$(num$, l)
            num$ = LEFT$(num$, LEN(num$) - l)
            CALL ProcPiece(piece$, MajorPower)
            MajorPower = MajorPower + 1
        LOOP WHILE LEN(num$) > 0
    END IF
    name$ = UCASE$(name$)
    '  PRINT name$;
    DO
        i = verify(name$, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")
        IF i THEN name$ = LEFT$(name$, i - 1) + MID$(name$, i + 1)
    LOOP UNTIL i = 0
    ' PRINT "  "; name$
    tot = 0
    FOR i = 1 TO LEN(name$)
        ix = INSTR("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", MID$(name$, i, 1))
        IF ix > 0 THEN tot = tot + ix
    NEXT i
    IF tot = n THEN
        PRINT n
    END IF
NEXT
'LOOP


SUB ProcPiece (piece$, MajorPower)
piece = VAL(piece$)
n$ = ""
IF piece > 99 THEN
    n$ = unit$(piece \ 100) + " hundred "
    piece = piece MOD 100
    IF piece > 0 THEN n$ = n$ + "and " ' *************
END IF
IF piece > 19 THEN
    n$ = n$ + ten$(piece \ 10)
    piece = piece MOD 10
    IF piece > 0 THEN n$ = n$ + "-": ELSE n$ = n$ + " "
END IF
IF piece > 0 THEN n$ = n$ + unit$(piece) + " "
IF n$ > "" THEN name$ = n$ + major$(MajorPower) + " " + name$
END SUB

FUNCTION verify (s1$, s2$)
FOR i = 1 TO LEN(s1$)
    IF INSTR(s2$, MID$(s1$, i, 1)) = 0 THEN verify = i: EXIT FUNCTION
NEXT
verify = 0
END FUNCTION

finds only 251 and 259 for "two hundred and fifty one" and "two hundred and fifty nine". Eliminating the line that adds the "and" results in no solutions at all.

  Posted by Charlie on 2015-10-26 15:37:59
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