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Problem:

\$n!\$ means \$n × (n − 1) × ... × 3 × 2 × 1\$

For example, \$10! = 10 × 9 × ... × 3 × 2 × 1 = 3628800\$, and the sum of the digits in the number \$10!\$ is \$3 + 6 + 2 + 8 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 27\$.

Find the sum of the digits in the number \$100!\$.

My solution in Clojure:

(reduce + (map (fn[x](Integer. (str x))) (seq (str (apply *' (range 1 101))))))

Questions:

  • Is there a way to avoid the *' in the factorial bit? (apply *' (range 1 101))
  • I converted the result of the factorial to a string, then to a sequence, and then mapped an Integer cast to a string cast. Surely there must be a way to simplify this?
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Your first question: you could make range return a list of bigints, and reduce over it

(reduce * (range (bigint 1) 101))

your second question: :

  1. you dont have to explicitly use seq, clojure will automatically treat your string as a seq
  2. you dont have to use the full-blown string to number converter, you could for example use int to get the char code:

    (map #(- (int %) (int \0)) "1234")`
    
  3. for other ways of getting digits of a number, check out this thread
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