UPDATED I mentioned in a previous post that I experienced some water problems in my home office after the water meter was replaced at home. The contractor who did the update stopped by yesterday afternoon with a powerful fan to help the small amount of water that had leaked into my office dry up. This morning the humidity from the carpet was gone. He also mentioned that they will replace the four books that got damaged by water. I will call this afternoon to return the fan and inform them of the four books.
I randomly selected the Prime Checker challenge at HackerRank. Read the requirements and spent time working on a solution. When I was ready to give it a try, noticed that it would not allow me to enter my solution. In addition, it seems that the scaffolding code has an issue and a message indicates that you need to address it. Not sure what is going on. I had to skip it because I am not able to enter my code.
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A few days went by and I was looking for the next challenge when I noticed that I was not able to submit my solution because the editor display at the HackerRank would not allow me to do it. This morning, with a clear mind, I went back to try it. It seems to work.
I have updated the code on my GitHub repository. The previous version that I posted on GitHub would not work because I did not implement the issue with the following line which would explicitly not work (bug placed by HackerRank).
// **** address this bug (introduced by HackerRank) **** BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); // BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
The top line is the line with the introduced bug. The second line is what I used in my previously posted solution. I left my line commented out, and introduced the line that had a bug. The line with an issue may be fixed by adding the following:
// **** address the input issue (part of the challenge) **** import static java.lang.System.in;
These lines should follows the proposed import statements in the challenge.
If you are interested, please take a look at the updated file in my GitHub repository.
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That said; following are the test cases I used to generate my Solution using Java and the Eclipse IDE:
2 1 3 4 5 2 2 2 3 2 3 5 59 438 439 646 997 59 59 59 439 59 439 997
I did notice that depending on how the test numbers are presented, the scaffolding code does not seem to always display the correct answers.
Most methods used to determine if a number is prime number are based on variations of the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
The code for the Prime class follows:
/*
* Requested class name for the challenge.
*/
static class Prime {
/*
* Determine if this number is prime or not.
*/
private boolean isPrime(int n) {
// **** number <= 1 are not prime ****
if (n <= 1)
return false;
// **** 2 and 3 are prime ****
if (n <= 3)
return true;
// **** skip multiples of 2 and 3 ****
if ((n % 2 == 0) || // even
(n % 3 == 0)) // start at 3
return false;
// **** start with 3 and increment by 2 ****
int sr = (int)Math.sqrt(n);
for (int i = 3; i <= sr; i += 2) {
if (n % i == 0) {
return false;
}
}
// **** should be a prime ****
return true;
}
/*
* Helper function to loop through the numbers and display primes
*/
void checkPrime(int... numbers) {
// **** ****
for (int n : numbers) {
if (isPrime(n))
System.out.print(n + " ");
}
System.out.println();
}
}
For ease of use, I placed a copy of my solution in my GitHub repository. If you get a chance take a look and let me know your thoughts.
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Keep on learning, experimenting and having fun creating great software;
John
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