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Multiple Harshad Numbers (Posted on 2016-07-10) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A number is called Harshad if it is divisible by the sum of its digits.
For example 102 is divisible by 3.
This quotient is not Harshad because 34 is not divisible by 7.
108 is a Multiple Harshad Number because the process ends at 1:
108/9=12; 12/3=4; 4/4=1.

Find the Multiple Harshad Numbers below 1000.

Hard bonus: Apparently there are only 15095 of these numbers. Can you prove the list is finite?

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re: part one | Comment 3 of 12 |
(In reply to part one by Charlie)

First of all, let me apologize for the uneven breaking of that largest MH number. I realized after posting that it was much too long, and then I broke it apart by eyeballing the break points.

I modified the program to annotate the length of the path (number of iterations) to 1:

12 2
18 2
21 2
24 2
27 2
36 2
42 2
45 2
48 2
54 2
63 2
72 2
81 2
84 2
108 3
162 3
216 3
243 3
324 3
378 3
405 3
432 3
486 3
648 3
756 3
864 3
972 3
1296 3
1458 3
1944 4
2916 4
3402 4
4374 4
5832 4
6804 4
7290 4
8748 4
11664 4
13122 4
13608 4
15552 4
17496 4
23328 4
26244 4
34992 4
39366 4
52488 5
61236 5
69984 5
78732 5
91854 5
118098 5
122472 5
157464 5
183708 5
196830 5
236196 5
314928 5
354294 5
367416 5
419904 5
472392 5
559872 5
629856 5
839808 5
944784 5
1062882 5
1102248 6
1417176 6
1653372 6
2125764 6
2480058 6
3306744 6
4251528 6
4408992 6
4960116 6
5668704 6
6613488 6
7085880 6
8503056 6
9920232 6

DefDbl A-Z
Dim crlf$, harshad(10000), hLevel(10000), MHct, md


Private Sub Form_Load()
 Form1.Visible = True
 
 
 Text1.Text = ""
 crlf = Chr$(13) + Chr$(10)
 
 For n = 1 To 9
   harshad(n) = n
   hLevel(n) = 1
 Next
 
 MHct = 9
 
 For n = 10 To 10000000
  If isMHarshad(n) Then
    MHct = MHct + 1
    harshad(MHct) = n
    hLevel(MHct) = hLevel(md) + 1
    Text1.Text = Text1.Text & n & Str(hLevel(MHct)) & crlf
  End If
 Next
 
 
 Text1.Text = Text1.Text & crlf & " done"
  
End Sub

Function isMHarshad(n)
  If n < 10 Then isMHarshad = 1: Exit Function
  s = sod(n)
'  If s = 1 Then isMHarshad = 1: Exit Function
  If n Mod s > 0 Then isMHarshad = 0: Exit Function
  low = 1: hgh = MHct
  lkup = n / s
  

  
  DoEvents
  Do
    md = Int((low + hgh) / 2)
    If harshad(md) < lkup Then
      low = md + 1
    ElseIf harshad(md) > lkup Then
      hgh = md - 1
    Else
      isMHarshad = 1
      Exit Function
    End If
  Loop Until low > hgh
  If harshad(md) = lkup Then
    isMHarshad = 1
  Else
    isMHarshad = 0
  End If
End Function

Function sod(n)
  s$ = LTrim(Str(n))
  tot = 0
  For i = 1 To Len(s$)
   tot = tot + Val(Mid(s$, i, 1))
  Next
  sod = tot
End Function



  Posted by Charlie on 2016-07-10 13:06:36
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