# Project Euler #127 abc-hits

Problem (Rephrased from here):

• The radical of $n$, $rad(n)$, is the product of distinct prime factors of $n$. For example, $504 = 2^3 × 3^2 × 7$, so $rad(504) = 2 × 3 × 7 = 42$.

We shall define the triplet of positive integers $(a, b, c)$ to be an abc-hit if:

• $GCD(a, b) = GCD(a, c) = GCD(b, c) = 1$
• $a < b$
• $a + b = c$
• $rad(abc) < c$

If $(a,b,c)$ is an abc-hit such that $c<120000$, Find sum of all $c$.

I have this code which runs in ~25.727 seconds, which I would like to write in a better way.

Firstly I noted these:

• If GCD(a,b)=1 then GCD(a,a+b)=1 and GCD(b,a+b)=1
• rad(a*b*c)=rad(a)*rad(b)*rad(c) if GCD(a,b,c)=1

Code:

private static double[] rad;
private static int[] primes;

public static void main(String[] args) {
long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println(solve());
long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println((double) (t2 - t1) / 1000.0);
}

private static long solve() {
final int lim = 1000;
long sumc = 0;
sievePrimesArray(lim);
for (int a = 1; a < lim; a++) {
// The value of b is minimum a+1, so notcoprime is an
// array which tells if i and a have some common prime factor.

boolean[] notcoprime = new boolean[lim - a - 1];
for (int i = 0; i < primes.length && primes[i] <= a; i++) {
if (a % primes[i] == 0) {
// We need primes[i]*j>=a+1

for (int j = (a + 1) / primes[i] + (((a + 1) / primes[i] < a + 1) ? 1 : 0);
primes[i] * j < lim; j++) {
notcoprime[primes[i] * j - (a + 1)] = true;
}
}
}
for (int b = a + 1; b + a < lim; b++) {
int c = a + b;
if (!notcoprime[b - (a + 1)]) {

// Here to avoid overflow I used double and since BigInteger was slow.
// The maximum value of rad rad reached is 119999 and
// rad[a-1]*rad[b-1]<=119999*119999=14399760001 which is still in double

sumc += c;
}
}
}
}
return sumc;
}


Rather than finding all prime factors of a number, I multiply rad[x*p] by p where p is prime, once.

public static void sieveRadArray(int lim) {
for (int x : primes) {
for (int j = 1; x * j < lim; j++) {
rad[j * x - 1] *= x;
}
}
}

private static void sievePrimesArray(int lim) {
boolean[] isPrime = new boolean[lim + 1];
Arrays.fill(isPrime, true);
for (int i = 2; i * i <= lim; i++) {
if (isPrime[i]) {
for (int j = i; i * j <= lim; j++) {
isPrime[i * j] = false;
}
}
}
ArrayList<Integer> prime_list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (int j = 3; j < lim; j++) {
if (isPrime[j]) {
}
}
primes = prime_list.stream().mapToInt(i -> i).toArray();
}


• Kudos for doing math groundwork, particularly for noticing multiplicative property of $rad$.

• I see no reason to resort to double. 14399760001 is well within the long range.

• Computing notcoprime costs a lot. Replacing it with

for (int a = 1; a < lim; a++) {
for (int b = a + 1; b + a < lim; b++) {
if(gcd(a, b) == 1) {
....


reduces the execution time by the factor of 1.5 even for the most naive gcd implementation.

• On my system your code as is runs for about 0.06 sec. The reported 25+ sec must have some other explanation. What system do you have?

• Thankyou, I would like to try your implementation on my system, if you could provide a hastebin link. – RE60K Mar 25 '16 at 6:15
• I know it's been more than 1.5 year, but "On my system your code as is runs for about 0.06 sec. The reported 25+ sec must have some other explanation." is because the limit is set to 1000 (like in the example of the challenge description), instead of 120000. Running the code as is (with the limit 120,000) runs in about 16 seconds on my PC, though. – Kevin Cruijssen Dec 18 '17 at 11:35