Project Euler question 8 solved in Java
By Steve Claridge on 2014-03-15.
Find the greatest product of five consecutive digits in the 1000-digit number.
The 1000-digit number is represented as the big String in the code below.
public class Euler8
{
private String big = "73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934" +
"96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843" +
"85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511" +
"12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557" +
"66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113" +
"62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749" +
"30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866" +
"70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776" +
"65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243" +
"52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397" +
"53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482" +
"83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474" +
"82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881" +
"16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586" +
"17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042" +
"24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408" +
"07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188" +
"84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606" +
"05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725" +
"71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450"; private ArrayList strToNums( String strpart )
{
ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
String[] numstrings = strpart.split( "" );
for (int i = 1; i < numstrings.length; i++)
{
result.add( new Integer( numstrings[i] ) );
} return result;
} public long find()
{
long biggest = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < big.length() - 5; i++ )
{
ArrayList n = strToNums( big.substring( i, i+5 ) );
long tmp = n.get(0);
for (int j = 1; j < n.size(); j++)
{
tmp *= n.get(j);
}
if ( tmp > biggest )
{
biggest = tmp;
}
}
return biggest;
}
}