Coded triangle numbers
Author: Shlomi Fish
The nth term of the sequence of triangle numbers is given by, tn = ½n(n+1); so the first ten triangle numbers are:
1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, ...
By converting each letter in a word to a number corresponding to its alphabetical position and adding these values we form a word value. For example, the word value for SKY is 19 + 11 + 25 = 55 = t10. If the word value is a triangle number then we shall call the word a triangle word.
Using words.txt (right click and 'Save Link/Target As...'), a 16K text file containing nearly two-thousand common English words, how many are triangle words?
Source code: prob042-shlomif.p6
use v6; sub is_triangle($half) { my $n = $half +< 1; my $i = Int( sqrt($n) ); if $i * $i == $n { return False; } return $n == $i * ( $i + 1 ); } sub MAIN(:$verbose = False) { my $total_sum = 0; my $words-file = $*SPEC.catdir($*PROGRAM-NAME.IO.dirname, 'words.txt'); my $text = $words-file.IO.slurp; my @words = $text ~~ m:global/<[A .. Z]>+/; my $RESULT = +(@words.grep(sub ($_) { is_triangle( sum( map { $_.ord - 'A'.ord + 1 },$_.comb) ) })); say $RESULT; }