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Arithmeic Mean Crossed Positive Integer Puzzle (Posted on 2024-01-03) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A (base ten) positive integer N (with non leading zeroes) such that each of the digits of N, with the exception of the first digit and the last digit, is less than the arithmetic mean of the two neighboring digits.

Arrange all the integers satisfying the above in strictly ascending order.

What is the 100th number?

Note:no 1-digit or 2-digit number qualifies, since there are not enough digits to test.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

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Solution Computer solution Comment 1 of 1
346
The first 100 such numbers are:
[100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 136, 137, 138, 139, 148, 149, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 247, 248, 249, 259, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 346]

And I think 96433469 may be the largest.

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def test(n):
    testlist = [int(i) for i in list(str(n))]
    length = len(testlist)
    if length < 3:
        return False
    for index in range(1, length-1):
        if testlist[index] >= (testlist[index-1] + testlist[index+1])/2:
            return False
    return True

solutions = [0] ;  due to zero based list so index will match up.
for i in range(347):
    if test(i):
        print(i)
        solutions.append(i)

print(solutions[100])
solutions.pop(0)
print(len(solutions))

  Posted by Larry on 2024-01-03 11:56:12
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