Post a Comment On: Scattered Thoughts

I will write more about music notation later as I explore LilyPond. In this post I want to explore my answer to problem #6 of Project Euler:

What is the difference between the sum of the squares and the square of the sums?

I first defined a helper function:

let square i = i*i

Then the sum of the squares can be expressed as:

let sum_of_squares = {1..100} |> Seq.map square |> Seq.sum

And the square of the sum is:

let square_of_sum = {1..100} |> Seq.sum |> square

So that the desired difference is:

square_of_sum - sum_of_squares |> printfn "diff = %A"

And there's really nothing much more to say.