#!/usr/bin/env ruby # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- problem=%{ -- Starting with 1 and spiralling anticlockwise in the following way, a square spiral with side length 7 is formed. -- -- 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 -- 38 17 16 15 14 13 30 -- 39 18 5 4 3 12 29 -- 40 19 6 1 2 11 28 -- 41 20 7 8 9 10 27 -- 42 21 22 23 24 25 26 -- 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 -- -- It is interesting to note that the odd squares lie along the bottom right diagonal, but what is more interesting is that 8 out of the 13 numbers lying along both diagonals are prime; that is, a ratio of 8/13 ≈ 62%. -- -- If one complete new layer is wrapped around the spiral above, a square spiral with side length 9 will be formed. If this process is continued, what is the side length of the square spiral for which the ratio of primes along both diagonals first falls below 10%? -- -- Reflexion: -- if n is the side length of the square spiral. The numbers at each 'coin' are -- -- 1 -> 1 -- 2 -> 3 5 7 9 -- 3 -> 13 17 21 25 -- ... -- -- The rule is -- (last_max_number + n.(size-1) | n in [1..4]) -- examples: -- last_max_number=1 -- size = 3 -- 1+2 = 3, 1+2*2=5, 1+3*2=7, 1+4*2=9 -- -- last_max_number=9 -- size=5 -- 9+4=13, 9+2*4=17, 9+3*4=21, 9+4*4=25 } require 'primes' $po = Primes.new(100) size=1 ratio=1 last_max_number=1 nb_prime=0.0 nb_numbers_on_diag=1 while ratio > 0.1 do size +=2 (1..4).each do |n| last_max_number += (size-1) puts last_max_number nb_prime += 1 if $po.is_prime(last_max_number) nb_numbers_on_diag += 1 end ratio= nb_prime / nb_numbers_on_diag puts ratio end puts "size = #{size}"