SQL puzzle :)

598210 · Jun 8, 2008 6:47AM

I want to find all possible X up to the most highest number possbile with a single SQL.

X - Y = T + Z

where

X as a positive number,
Y is the reverse of X,
T is the sum of each number which X has
Z is the product of each number which X has

like in this example;

63 - 36 = 9 + 18

- Which is the most efficient way of producing for example numbers between 1 and 1000000000000, CONNECT BY from DUAL?
- Is there an alternative way to reverse a number other than undocumented REVERSE function to_number(reverse(to_char(anumber)) this way there will be three function calls for each number,
- What is the best way to break a number into pieces to sum or make product in SQL.

Thank you very much

486393 · Jun 8, 2008 7:13AM

Is calling user defined PL/SQL functions allowed or not?

598210 · Jun 8, 2008 7:28AM

wateenmooiedag the problem will be the performance most probably, but if it can not be handled within already SQL suppllied functionality then yes of course

By the way I will be using an 10.2 instance.

561093 · Jun 8, 2008 7:31AM

SQL> create or replace function sum_prod(p_val in number) return number is

  2   l_val Varchar2(500) := p_val;

  3   l_sum number := 0;

  4   l_n1  number;

  5   l_n2  number;

  6   l_product number := 1;

  7   l_first number;

  8  begin

  9    for i in 1..length(p_val)

 10    loop

 11      l_first := substr(l_val, 1, 1);

 12      l_sum := l_sum + l_first;

 13      l_product := l_product * l_first;

 14      l_val := substr(l_val, 2);

 15    end loop;

 16    return(l_sum + l_product);

 17  end;

 18  /


Function created.


SQL> select rno from ( select rownum rno

  2                      from dual

  3                    connect by level <= 100)

  4  where rno - reverse(to_char(rno)) = sum_prod(rno);


  RNO

-----

   63


SQL> select rno from ( select rownum rno

  2                      from dual

  3                    connect by level <= 1000)

  4  where rno - reverse(to_char(rno)) = sum_prod(rno);


  RNO

-----

   63

  726


SQL> select rno from ( select rownum rno

  2                      from dual

  3                    connect by level <= 10000)

  4  where rno - reverse(to_char(rno)) = sum_prod(rno);


  RNO

-----

   63

  726

 8937

I think SQL experts can write it more elegantly.

598210 · Jun 8, 2008 8:01AM

Citrus thank you for your time, but let me rephrase my concerns below, if I use 1000000000000 with this method even on a strong machine it takes half a day to finish.

- Which is the most efficient way of producing for example numbers between 1 and 1000000000000, CONNECT BY from DUAL?
- Is there an alternative way to reverse a number other than undocumented REVERSE function to_number(reverse(to_char(anumber)) this way there will be three function calls for each number,
- What is the best way to break a number into pieces to sum or make product in SQL.

Nicolas Gasparotto · Jun 8, 2008 2:40PM

Hi,

The brute force won't help too much in your case.
You may want to exclude at least the number where the last digit is higher than the first.
And still, with such big number, I'm not sure SQL and PL/SQL will be very efficient.
Lastly, even if that takes half ad day to finish, I'm sure it's not a scheduled job, after running it once, it's finish.

Anyway, here below my first try on my laptop :

SQL> create or replace type nb_obj as object (n1 number, n2 number, n3 number, n4 number);

  2  /


Type created.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.00

SQL>

SQL> create or replace type nb_list as table of nb_obj;

  2  /


Type created.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.04

SQL>

SQL> create or replace function f_maths (p_max number) return nb_list pipelined is

  2      x number:=0;

  3      y number;

  4      t number;

  5      z number;

  6

  7  begin

  8      loop

  9          --X is a positive number

 10          x := x+1;

 11          if    substr(x,-1,1) > substr(x,1,1)

 12          then  x := x+11-substr(x,-1,1);

 13          end if;

 14          exit when x > p_max;

 15

 16          y := null;

 17          t := 0;

 18          z := 1;

 19          for j in 1..length(x) loop

 20              --Y is the reverse of X

 21              y:=y||to_char(substr(x,-j,1));

 22              --T is the sum of each number which X has

 23              t:=t+substr(x,-j,1);

 24              --Z is the product of each number which X has

 25              z:=z*substr(x,-j,1);

 26              exit when y > substr(x,1,j);

 27          end loop;

 28          --X - Y = T + Z

 29          if x - y = t + z then

 30              pipe row (nb_obj(x,y,t,z));

 31          end if;

 32      end loop;

 33  end;

 34  /


Function created.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.04

SQL> show err

No errors.

SQL> select *

  2  from   table(f_maths(10000));


        N1         N2         N3         N4

---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

        63         36          9         18

       726        627         15         84

      8937       7398         27       1512


Elapsed: 00:00:00.06

SQL>

SQL> select *

  2  from   table(f_maths(100000));


        N1         N2         N3         N4

---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

        63         36          9         18

       726        627         15         84

      8937       7398         27       1512


Elapsed: 00:00:00.60

SQL>

SQL> select *

  2  from   table(f_maths(1000000));


        N1         N2         N3         N4

---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

        63         36          9         18

       726        627         15         84

      8937       7398         27       1512


Elapsed: 00:00:07.01

SQL>

SQL> select *

  2  from   table(f_maths(10000000));


        N1         N2         N3         N4

---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

        63         36          9         18

       726        627         15         84

      8937       7398         27       1512


Elapsed: 00:01:21.81

SQL>

SQL> select *

  2  from   table(f_maths(100000000));


        N1         N2         N3         N4

---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

        63         36          9         18

       726        627         15         84

      8937       7398         27       1512


Elapsed: 00:15:36.81

Nicolas.

598210 · Jun 8, 2008 3:44PM

N. Gasparotto thank you for your responce.

Related to just using SQL functions I opened another thread here -
668861

But I guess since there are several function calls those solutions do not help both in performance and easy undertanding compared to a user defined pl/sql like yours. This was an interesting experience

561093 · Jun 8, 2008 3:44PM

I replaced "SUM_PROD" function with wateenmooiedag's query:

2577576

SQL> select rno from ( select rownum rno

  2                          from dual

  3                        connect by level <= 1000)

  4      where rno - reverse(to_char(rno)) =

  5                           (select to_number(extractvalue(xmltype(dbms_xmlgen.getxml('select '

  6                                   ||regexp_replace(rno,'(.)','\1+') || '0'||'

  7                                      s from dual')),'/ROWSET/ROW/S'))

  8                          +        to_number(extractvalue(xmltype(dbms_xmlgen.getxml('select '

  9                                   ||regexp_replace(rno,'(.)','\1*') || '1'||'

 10                                   p from dual')),'/ROWSET/ROW/P'))

 11                              from dual);


       RNO

----------

        63

       726


SQL>

Nicolas Gasparotto · Jun 8, 2008 3:57PM

YEah, XML and REGEXP are slow down. I'm pretty sure you can find some more rules to add in your function to exclude more and more numbers.

Nicolas.

Nicolas Gasparotto · Jun 8, 2008 5:05PM

Just a new try, ~3 minutes less for hundred million...

SQL> drop type nb_list;


Type dropped.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.11

SQL> create or replace type nb_obj as object (n1 number, n2 number, n3 number, n4 number);

  2  /


Type created.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.01

SQL>

SQL> create or replace type nb_list as table of nb_obj;

  2  /


Type created.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.15

SQL>

SQL> create or replace function f_maths (p_min number,p_max number) return nb_list pipelined is

  2      x number:=p_min-1;

  3      y number;

  4      t number;

  5      z number;

  6      x1 number;

  7      x2 number;

  8  begin

  9      loop

 10          --X is a positive number

 11          x := x+1;

 12          x1 := substr(x,1,floor(length(x)/2));

 13          x2 := substr(x,-floor(length(x)/2));

 14          --dbms_output.put_line(x||' '||x1||' '||x2);

 15          if    x1 < x2 or length(x2) < length(x1)

 16          then  x := ceil(x/power(10,length(x2)))*power(10,length(x2));

 17          end if;

 18          exit when x > p_max;

 19

 20          y := null;

 21          t := 0;

 22          z := 1;

 23          for j in 1..length(x) loop

 24              --Y is the reverse of X

 25              y:=y||to_char(substr(x,-j,1));

 26              exit when y > substr(x,1,j);

 27              --T is the sum of each number which X has

 28              t:=t+substr(x,-j,1);

 29              --Z is the product of each number which X has

 30              z:=z*substr(x,-j,1);

 31          end loop;

 32          --X - Y = T + Z

 33          if x - y = t + z then

 34              pipe row (nb_obj(x,y,t,z));

 35          end if;

 36      end loop;

 37  end;

 38  /


Function created.


Elapsed: 00:00:00.04

SQL> show err

No errors.

SQL> select *

  2  from   table(f_maths(1,100000000));


        N1         N2         N3         N4

---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

        63         36          9         18

       726        627         15         84

      8937       7398         27       1512


Elapsed: 00:12:43.79

SQL>

Nicolas.

MichaelS · Jun 9, 2008 5:17AM

Probaly just interesting from an academical point of view. Performancewise it is just not acceptable:

SQL> select * from
  2   xmltable('declare function local:reverse($a)
  3             {
  4               if (string-length($a) != 0) then
  5                concat(substring($a,string-length($a),1), local:reverse(substring($a,1,string-length($a)-1)))
  6               else ()
  7             }; (: eof :)
  8             declare function local:sum($a)
  9             {
 10               if (string-length($a) != 0) then
 11                 xs:integer(substring($a,1,1)) + xs:integer(local:sum(substring($a,2)))
 12               else (0)
 13             }; (: eof :)
 14             declare function local:prod($a)
 15             {
 16               if (string-length($a) != 0) then
 17                 xs:integer(substring($a,1,1)) * xs:integer(local:prod(substring($a,2)))
 18               else (1)
 19             }; (: eof :)
 20             for $i in 1 to 10000
 21              where $i - local:reverse(xs:string($i)) = local:sum(xs:string($i)) + local:prod(xs:string($i))
 22                    return $i' columns x integer path '.')
 23  /

         X
----------
        63
       726
      8937

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