Excel BI’s Excel Challenge #312 — solved in R

Defining the Puzzle:

In current puzzle we need to check if digits of our numbers has some magic properties. Seems easy, but it is not usually the case, when ExcelBI prepare riddle.

List all Sumproduct numbers from column A.
A Sum product number is that number which is perfectly divisible by both the sum of digits and product of digits.
Ex. 135 which is perfectly divisible by both 1+3+5=9 and 1*3*5 = 15

Loading Data from Excel:

Lets start loading data and libraries:

library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)
library(data.table)

input = read_excel(“Sumproduct Number.xlsx”, range = “A1:A10”)
test = read_excel(“Sumproduct Number.xlsx”, range = “B1:B3”)

Approach 1: Tidyverse with purrr

is_sum_product_tv = function(number){
 digits = as.numeric(str_split(as.character(number), “”)[[1]])
 sum = reduce(digits, `+`)
 product = reduce(digits, `*`)
 
 check = number %% sum == 0 & number %% product == 0
 return(check) 
}

 result_tv = input %>%
 mutate(my_answer = map_lgl(Number, is_sum_product_tv)) %>%
 filter(my_answer) %>%
 select(my_answer = Number)

Approach 2: Base R

is_sum_product_base <- function(number) {
 digits <- as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(as.character(number), “”)))
 
 sum_digits <- sum(digits)
 product_digits <- prod(digits)
 
 check <- number %% sum_digits == 0 & number %% product_digits == 0
 return(check)
 }

result_base <- vector(“list”, length = nrow(input))
 for (i in seq_along(input$Number)) {
 result_base[[i]] <- is_sum_product_base(input$Number[i])
 }

result_base = cbind(data.frame(my_answer = unlist(result_base)),input)
result_base = result_base %>% filter(my_answer == TRUE) %>% select(my_answer = Number)

Approach 3: Data.table

input_dt = setDT(input)
 is_sum_product_dt <- function(number) {
 digits <- as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(as.character(number), “”)))
 sum_digits <- sum(digits)
 product_digits <- prod(digits) 
 check <- number %% sum_digits == 0 & number %% product_digits == 0
 return(check)
 }
 
 input_dt[, my_answer := lapply(Number, is_sum_product_dt)]
 result_dt <- input_dt[my_answer == TRUE, .(Number)]

Validating Our Solutions:

identical(test$`Answer Expected`, result_tv$my_answer)
 #[1] TRUE
identical(test$`Answer Expected`, result_base$my_answer) 
 #[1] TRUE
identical(test$`Answer Expected`, result_dt$Number) 
 #[1] TRUE

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