Project Euler – Problem 40 Solution

Problem

An irrational decimal fraction is created by concatenating the positive integers:

0.123456789101112131415161718192021…

It can be seen that the 12th digit of the fractional part is 1.

If dn represents the nth digit of the fractional part, find the value of the following expression.

d1 x d10 x d100 x d1000 x d10000 x d100000 x d1000000

Solution

A pretty straight forward solution, the only trick is to turn the sequence of natural numbers 1, 2, 3, … 11, 12, 13.. into a continuous sequence of individual numbers. I did so by taking each number and turning it into a string array of its digits (e.g. 11 –> {"1"; "1"}) and concatenating these arrays using Seq.collect.

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