Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Project Euler Problem 2

Today I got some time to look at Euler Problem 2.

Problem 2

Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ...

Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence which do not exceed four million.

The solution is to run a loop to find the next term in Fibonacci series. Check the evenness of the term and add to the sum.


public class ProblemTwo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int firstTerm = 0;
int secondTerm = 1;
int newTerm = 0;
int sum = 0;

while (secondTerm <= 4000000) {
newTerm = firstTerm + secondTerm;

if (0 == (newTerm % 2)) {
sum += newTerm;
}

firstTerm = secondTerm;
secondTerm = newTerm;
}

System.out.print(sum);
}
}

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