Re: Selecting numbers with all odd digits
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- Subject: [mg22224] Re: Selecting numbers with all odd digits
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 02:35:08 -0500 (EST)
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Tom:
A slight speed up
Select[Range[6990], Union[OddQ[IntegerDigits[#]]] == {True} &]; // Timing
{3.35 Second, Null}
Select[Range[6990], Select[IntegerDigits[#], EvenQ, 1] === {} &]; // Timing
{2.25 Second, Null}
The 1 in the inner Select terminates the test if an even digit is found
Allan
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"Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> wrote in message
news:88g51o$4ee at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello all,
>
> In one of the math classes I am teaching we are doing some work with
> permutations and combinations. One question in the text was, "how many
> positive integers less than 700 have all odd digits?"
>
> I had done the question "by hand" and then wondered how to use Mathematica
> to demonstrate that the solution was the correct one.
>
> I am still very far down on the learning curve in most things, but I
managed
> to bludgeon my way to an answer (thankfully the same as mine!)
>
> Select[
>
> Range[699],
>
> Union[ OddQ [ IntegerDigits[#]]] == {True} &
>
> ]
>
> I am sure my trial and error method can be improved upon. I am not
talking
> speed as much as simply using Mathematica in a way that makes sense and
> would be more logical??
>
> Thanks for any suggestions might have!
>
> Tom De Vries
> Edmonton, Alberta
> Canada
>
>