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TedPride,
This is blazingly fast...

I wanted to see just how fast, so I modified your code to fit into the benchmark FoxtrotUniform and I were playing with. It turns out your code is only about half as fast as my second version and it has a bug I didn't bother to track down. To see the bug, try entering 3133756 with your code.

I say your code is only about half as fast because it got less than halfway through (line 2235 of 5000) when it blew up and it took approximately the same amount of time (3.619 seconds) to get there.

In case you want to run some more tests yourself, take a look at gen_targets.pl and then use this modified code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my ($i, $j, $inum, $jnum, $left);

my $file = $ARGV[0] || 'targets.txt';
open (INPUT, '<', $file) or die "Unable to open $file for reading : $!
+";

while ( chomp( my $inp = <INPUT> ) ) {
    BING:
    for ($i = tget($inp); $i; $i--) {
        $inum = tmake($i);
        $left = tget($inp - $inum - 1) + 1;
        for ($j = 1; $j < $left; $j++) {
            $jnum = tmake($j);
            last BING if (tis($inp - $inum - $jnum));
        }
    }
}

sub tget { return int(sqrt(1 + $_[0] * 2) - .5); }
sub tmake { return (.5 * $_[0] * ($_[0] + 1)); }
sub tis { my $n = shift; return ($n == tmake(tget($n))); }
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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Triangle Numbers Revisited by Limbic~Region
in thread Triangle Numbers Revisited by Limbic~Region

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