Project Euler: Problem 17

https://projecteuler.net/problem=17

If the numbers 1 to 5 are written out in words: one, two, three, four, five, then there are 3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 19 letters used in total.

If all the numbers from 1 to 1000 (one thousand) inclusive were written out in words, how many letters would be used?

NOTE: Do not count spaces or hyphens. For example, 342 (three hundred and forty-two) contains 23 letters and 115 (one hundred and fifteen) contains 20 letters. The use of "and" when writing out numbers is in compliance with British usage.

First write a number_to_words(n) function that takes an integer n between 1 and 1000 inclusive and returns a list of words for the number as described above


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x = list(one, two, three)
x


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NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-699fe129f5b5> in <module>()
----> 1 x = list(one, two, three)
      2 x

NameError: name 'one' is not defined

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def number_to_words(n):
    """Given a number n between 1-1000 inclusive return a list of words for the number."""

Now write a set of assert tests for your number_to_words function that verifies that it is working as expected.


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# YOUR CODE HERE
raise NotImplementedError()

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assert True # use this for grading the number_to_words tests.

Now define a count_letters(n) that returns the number of letters used to write out the words for all of the the numbers 1 to n inclusive.


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def count_letters(n):
    """Count the number of letters used to write out the words for 1-n inclusive."""
    # YOUR CODE HERE
    raise NotImplementedError()

Now write a set of assert tests for your count_letters function that verifies that it is working as expected.


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# YOUR CODE HERE
raise NotImplementedError()

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assert True # use this for grading the count_letters tests.

Finally used your count_letters function to solve the original question.


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# YOUR CODE HERE
raise NotImplementedError()

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assert True # use this for gradig the answer to the original question.