;; EULER #065 ;; ========== ;; The square root of 2 can be written as an infinite continued fraction. ;; ;; sqrt(2) = 1 + 1 ;; ============== ;; 2 + 1 ;; =========== ;; 2 + 1 ;; ======== ;; 2 + 1 ;; ====== ;; 2 + ... ;; ;; The infinite continued fraction can be written, 2 = [1;(2)], (2) ;; indicates that 2 repeats ad infinitum. In a similar way, ;; 23 = [4;(1,3,1,8)]. ;; ;; It turns out that the sequence of partial values of continued fractions ;; for square roots provide the best rational approximations. Let us ;; consider the convergents for sqrt(2). ;; ;; Hence the sequence of the first ten convergents for 2 are: ;; ;; 1, 3/2, 7/5, 17/12, 41/29, 99/70, 239/169, 577/408, ;; 1393/985, 3363/2378, ... ;; ;; What is most surprising is that the important mathematical constant, ;; e = [2; 1,2,1, 1,4,1, 1,6,1 , ... , 1,2k,1, ...]. ;; ;; The first ten terms in the sequence of convergents for e are: ;; ;; 2, 3, 8/3, 11/4, 19/7, 87/32, 106/39, 193/71, 1264/465, ;; 1457/536, ... ;; ;; The sum of digits in the numerator of the 10th convergent is 1+4+5+7=17. ;; ;; Find the sum of digits in the numerator of the 100th convergent ;; of the continued fraction for e. ;; (ns euler065 (:use [util.misc])) (def e-repeating-seq (lazy-seq (cons 2 (mapcat #(vector %1 (* 2 %2) %1) (repeat 1) integers)))) (def sqrt2-repeating-seq (lazy-seq (cons 1 (repeat 2)))) (defn infinite-continued-fraction [s iterations] (let [s (reverse (take iterations s))] (loop [xs (rest s) result (first s)] (if (seq xs) (recur (rest xs) (+ (first xs) (/ 1 result))) result)))) (defn infinite-continued-fraction-seq [s] (let [f (partial infinite-continued-fraction s)] (map f (iterate inc 1)))) (defn e [iterations] (nth (infinite-continued-fraction-seq e-repeating-seq) (dec iterations))) (defn solve [iterations] (reduce + (map char-to-int (str (numerator (e iterations)))))) (time (solve 100))