The behavior at x=6174 is artifically set to 0, which taints the pure-recursive solution, but hey it was cool problem!
The K constant is 495 for 3 digits.
So the test with 691 is wrong.
Why tests with only one digit ?
Did I miss something ?
I don't understand the Test Suite for x = 3 and x = 1 too. what should I do in this case?
For x=3, the steps are 3000-0003=2997, 9972-2799=7173, etc.
Problem description is confusing as there are different Kaprekar constants depending on the number of digits. [0 9 495 6174 for 1, 2,3 4 digits respectively.
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any ideas?
The problem should specify that any number with less than four digits should be filled up to four digits with leading zeros. (e.g. 3 -> 0003)
Very nice and interesting problem!
I like the recursion aspect of this problem.
There is a small correction needed in the problem statement. Not all natural numbers, but 4 digit numbers can be reduced to Kaprekar number by the mentioned method. Similarly 3 digit numbers can be reduced to 495
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._R._Kaprekar
How it works x = 1?????
For those confused with test cases 2,3 and 5, like myself before, do conversion to 4-digit integer. Here is an example:
x = 1:
1000-0001 = 999
9990-0999 = 8991
9981-1899 = 8082
8820-0288 = 8532
8532-2358 = 6174
Therefore, y_correct = 5
love it!!!
Very nice. Took some few minutes to crack this.
What I did is to convert x into string and then use sort function.
function y = KaprekarSteps(x)
y=0;
while x<1000
x=x*10;
end
x1=floor(x/1000);
x2=floor((x-x1*1000)/100);
x3=floor((x-x1*1000-x2*100)/10);
x4=mod(x,10);
if x1==x2&&x2==x3&&x3==x4
y=Inf;
elseif x==6174
y=0;
else
x_ori=[x1,x2,x3,x4];
x_ori=sort(x_ori);
x_inv=fliplr(x_ori);
dif=0;
while dif ~=6174
x_1=1000*x_inv(1)+100*x_inv(2)+10*x_inv(3)+x_inv(4);
x_2=1000*x_ori(1)+100*x_ori(2)+10*x_ori(3)+x_ori(4);
dif=x_1-x_2;
y=y+1;
while dif<1000
dif=dif*10;
end
dif1=floor(dif/1000);
dif2=floor((dif-dif1*1000)/100);
dif3=floor((dif-dif1*1000-dif2*100)/10);
dif4=mod(dif,10);
dif_ori=[dif1,dif2,dif3,dif4];
x_ori=sort(dif_ori);
x_inv=fliplr(x_ori);
end
end
end
The test suite doesn't match the problem description - how can the answer to test two be 5?
Cheated with 1...:
1000 - 0001 = 999.
999 - 999 = 0
y = inf;
No?
How it works with x = 3, x = 691, x = 1?
This works for all but test 3 where it gives, in my opinion, the correct answer 8.
But zero is not sorted in this solution. You should get same answer for input x = 691 and 6910. (And then no need for abs())
1) 9610-0169=9441
2) 9441-1449=7992
3) 9972-2799=7173
4) 7731-1377=6354
5) 6543-3456=3087
6) 8730-0378=8352
7) 8532-2358=6174
This has been the lamest test so far. You need to pad the numbers with zeros to build it up to be a 4 digit number. Not explained in the rules.
Not all test cases seem to be correct. For example x=3 would imply that the next value should be x=3-3=0, so y_correct=Inf and not 6
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Interesting - a recursive approach
Could you stop doing this kind of thing? I think it would be a lot more fun if we could see the _actual_ best solution..
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