Detect palindrome products in a given range.
A palindromic number is a number that remains the same when its digits are
reversed. For example, 121
is a palindromic number but 112
is not.
Given a range of numbers, find the largest and smallest palindromes which are products of numbers within that range.
Your solution should return the largest and smallest palindromes, along with the factors of each within the range. If the largest or smallest palindrome has more than one pair of factors within the range, then return all the pairs.
Given the range [1, 9]
(both inclusive)...
And given the list of all possible products within this range:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 15, 21, 24, 27, 20, 28, 32, 36, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 42, 48, 54, 49, 56, 63, 64, 72, 81]
The palindrome products are all single digit numbers (in this case):
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
The smallest palindrome product is 1
. Its factors are (1, 1)
.
The largest palindrome product is 9
. Its factors are (1, 9)
and (3, 3)
.
Given the range [10, 99]
(both inclusive)...
The smallest palindrome product is 121
. Its factors are (11, 11)
.
The largest palindrome product is 9009
. Its factors are (91, 99)
.
For installation and learning resources, refer to the exercism help page.
For running the tests provided, you will need the Minitest gem. Open a terminal window and run the following command to install minitest:
gem install minitest
If you would like color output, you can require 'minitest/pride'
in
the test file, or note the alternative instruction, below, for running
the test file.
Run the tests from the exercise directory using the following command:
ruby palindrome_products_test.rb
To include color from the command line:
ruby -r minitest/pride palindrome_products_test.rb
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require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'palindrome_products'
class PalindromesTest < Minitest::Test
def test_largest_palindrome_from_single_digit_factors
palindromes = Palindromes.new(max_factor: 9)
palindromes.generate
largest = palindromes.largest
assert_equal 9, largest.value
assert_includes [[[3, 3], [1, 9]], [[1, 9], [3, 3]]], largest.factors
end
def test_largest_palindrome_from_double_digit_factors
skip
palindromes = Palindromes.new(max_factor: 99, min_factor: 10)
palindromes.generate
largest = palindromes.largest
assert_equal 9009, largest.value
assert_equal [[91, 99]], largest.factors
end
def test_smallest_palindrome_from_double_digit_factors
skip
palindromes = Palindromes.new(max_factor: 99, min_factor: 10)
palindromes.generate
smallest = palindromes.smallest
assert_equal 121, smallest.value
assert_equal [[11, 11]], smallest.factors
end
def test_largest_palindrome_from_triple_digit_factors
skip
palindromes = Palindromes.new(max_factor: 999, min_factor: 100)
palindromes.generate
largest = palindromes.largest
assert_equal 906_609, largest.value
assert_equal [[913, 993]], largest.factors
end
def test_smallest_palindrome_from_triple_digit_factors
skip
palindromes = Palindromes.new(max_factor: 999, min_factor: 100)
palindromes.generate
smallest = palindromes.smallest
assert_equal 10_201, smallest.value
assert_equal [[101, 101]], smallest.factors
end
end
require 'set'
class Palindromes
def initialize(max_factor:, min_factor: 1)
@min_factor = min_factor
@max_factor = max_factor
end
def generate
@palindromes = all_factors.each_with_object({}) do |factor1, palindromes|
all_factors.each do |factor2|
factors = [factor1, factor2]
product = factors.reduce(:*)
next unless palindrome?(product)
palindromes[product] ||= CompositeNumber.new(product)
palindromes[product].add_factors(factors)
end
end
end
def largest
palindromes[palindromes.keys.max]
end
def smallest
palindromes[palindromes.keys.min]
end
private
def palindromes
@palindromes || generate
end
def palindrome?(value)
value.to_s.reverse == value.to_s
end
def all_factors
@all_factors ||= @min_factor..@max_factor
end
end
class CompositeNumber
attr_reader :value
def initialize(value)
@value = value
@factors = Set.new
end
def add_factors(factors)
@factors << factors.sort
end
def factors
@factors.to_a
end
end
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I love the abstractions you chose. Makes the code very readable.