Project Euler Problem 056
Statement
A googol (10100) is a massive number: one followed by one-hundred zeros; 100100 is almost unimaginably large: one followed by two-hundred zeros. Despite their size, the sum of the digits in each number is only 1.
Considering natural numbers of the form, ab, where a, b<100, what is the maximum digital sum?
Solution
Brute-force solution.
def digital_sum(n): return sum(int(c) for c in str(n)) if __name__ == '__main__': result = max(digital_sum(a ** b) for a in range(100) for b in range(100)) print("The result is:", result)
The Python file is available for download here.
