/* * Solution to Project Euler problem 18 * Copyright (c) Project Nayuki. All rights reserved. * * https://www.nayuki.io/page/project-euler-solutions * https://github.com/nayuki/Project-Euler-solutions */ public final class p018 implements EulerSolution { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(new p018().run()); } /* * We create a new blank triangle with the same dimensions as the original big triangle. * For each cell of the big triangle, we consider the sub-triangle whose top is at this cell, * calculate the maximum path sum when starting from this cell, and store the result * in the corresponding cell of the blank triangle. * * If we start at a particular cell, what is the maximum path total? If the cell is at the * bottom of the big triangle, then it is simply the cell's value. Otherwise the answer is * the cell's value plus either {the maximum path total of the cell down and to the left} * or {the maximum path total of the cell down and to the right}, whichever is greater. * By computing the blank triangle's values from bottom up, the dependent values are always * computed before they are utilized. This technique is known as dynamic programming. */ public String run() { for (int i = triangle.length - 2; i >= 0; i--) { for (int j = 0; j < triangle[i].length; j++) triangle[i][j] += Math.max(triangle[i + 1][j], triangle[i + 1][j + 1]); } return Integer.toString(triangle[0][0]); } private int[][] triangle = { // Mutable {75}, {95,64}, {17,47,82}, {18,35,87,10}, {20, 4,82,47,65}, {19, 1,23,75, 3,34}, {88, 2,77,73, 7,63,67}, {99,65, 4,28, 6,16,70,92}, {41,41,26,56,83,40,80,70,33}, {41,48,72,33,47,32,37,16,94,29}, {53,71,44,65,25,43,91,52,97,51,14}, {70,11,33,28,77,73,17,78,39,68,17,57}, {91,71,52,38,17,14,91,43,58,50,27,29,48}, {63,66, 4,68,89,53,67,30,73,16,69,87,40,31}, { 4,62,98,27,23, 9,70,98,73,93,38,53,60, 4,23}, }; }