/** * Problem 28 - Number spiral diagonals * * @see {@link https://projecteuler.net/problem=28} * * Starting with the number 1 and moving to the right in a clockwise direction a 5 by 5 spiral is formed as follows: * * 21 22 23 24 25 * 20 07 08 09 10 * 19 06 01 02 11 * 18 05 04 03 12 * 17 16 15 14 13 * * It can be verified that the sum of the numbers on the diagonals is 101. * What is the sum of the numbers on the diagonals in a 1001 by 1001 spiral formed in the same way? * * @author ddaniel27 */ function problem28(dim) { if (dim % 2 === 0) { throw new Error('Dimension must be odd') } if (dim < 1) { throw new Error('Dimension must be positive') } let result = 1 for (let i = 3; i <= dim; i += 2) { /** * Adding more dimensions to the matrix, we will find at the top-right corner the follow sequence: * 01, 09, 25, 49, 81, 121, 169, ... * So this can be expressed as: * i^2, where i is all odd numbers * * Also, we can know which numbers are in each corner dimension * Just develop the sequence counter clockwise from top-right corner like this: * First corner: i^2 * Second corner: i^2 - (i - 1) | The "i - 1" is the distance between corners in each dimension * Third corner: i^2 - 2 * (i - 1) * Fourth corner: i^2 - 3 * (i - 1) * * Doing the sum of each corner and simplifying, we found that the result for each dimension is: * sumDim = 4 * i^2 + 6 * (1 - i) * * In this case I skip the 1x1 dim matrix because is trivial, that's why I start in a 3x3 matrix */ result += 4 * i * i + 6 * (1 - i) // Calculate sum of each dimension corner } return result } export { problem28 }