++LanX for an excellent answer (way faster than my brute force approach).

Allow me one nit-pick:

9! = 362880 possible combinations are checked in a recursive function.

Throwing in a counter shows that sub append_digit is actually called 986,410 times. Took me a while to work out why...

9! is the number of combinations if every number has exactly 9 digits. But we also allow numbers with 1, 2, ..., 8 digits. So the total number of combinations is:

my $p = 9 + # 1 digit (9 * 8) + # 2 digits (9 * 8 * 7) + # 3 digits (9 * 8 * 7 * 6) + # 4 digits (9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5) + # 5 digits (9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4) + # 6 digits (9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3) + # 7 digits (9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2) + # 8 digits (9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1); # 9 digits say $p; # = 986,409

(That 1 extra sub call is the first one, when @number is empty.)

:-)

For anyone else trying to understand how this code works, here is my slightly-reworked version which outputs the results in the order found:

my $calls = 0; my $count = 0; my @digits; my @solutions; append_digit(); print "count: $count\n", join("\n", @solutions), "\n"; print "recursive calls: ", $calls, "\n"; sub append_digit { ++$calls; my $number = join '', @digits; if (@digits && ! grep { $number % $_ } @digits) { print "$count: $number\n" unless ++$count % 100; push @solutions, $number; } for my $digit (1 .. 9) { next if $digit ~~ @digits; push @digits, $digit; append_digit(); pop @digits; } }

Hope that’s helpful!


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In reply to Re^2: Puzzle Time by Athanasius
in thread Puzzle Time by Anonymous Monk

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