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Problem 4 on Project Euler
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| class Numeric | |
| def palindromic? | |
| to_s.reverse == to_s | |
| end | |
| end | |
| class Range | |
| def reverse | |
| ReverseRange.new last, first, exclude_end? | |
| end | |
| end | |
| class ReverseRange < Range | |
| def each &blk | |
| cur = first | |
| blk[cur] until (cur = cur.pred) == last | |
| end | |
| end | |
| largest = (100..999).reverse.collect do |i| | |
| possible = (100..i).reverse.find do |j| | |
| product = i * j | |
| product.palindromic? | |
| end || 0 | |
| i * possible | |
| end.max | |
| puts largest |
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