From 7e7d31ad280f2d72658125a273d1500beac2f97b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Katrina Owen Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 11:59:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Sync largest-series-product docs with problem-specifications (#1683) * Sync largest-series-product docs with problem-specifications The largest-series-product exercise has been overhauled as part of a project to make practice exercises more consistent and friendly. For more context, please see the discussion in the forum, as well as the pull request that updated the exercise in the problem-specifications repository: - https://forum.exercism.org/t/new-project-making-practice-exercises-more-consistent-and-human-across-exercism/3943 - https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/pull/2246 * Delete test cases from largest-series-product This deletes two deprecated test cases so that we can dramatically simplify the instructions for this exercise. --- .../.docs/instructions.md | 30 +++++++++++++------ .../.docs/introduction.md | 5 ++++ .../tests/largest-series-product.rs | 24 --------------- 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) create mode 100644 exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/introduction.md diff --git a/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/instructions.md b/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/instructions.md index 8ddbc6024..f297b57f7 100644 --- a/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/instructions.md +++ b/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/instructions.md @@ -1,14 +1,26 @@ # Instructions -Given a string of digits, calculate the largest product for a contiguous -substring of digits of length n. +Your task is to look for patterns in the long sequence of digits in the encrypted signal. -For example, for the input `'1027839564'`, the largest product for a -series of 3 digits is 270 (9 * 5 * 6), and the largest product for a -series of 5 digits is 7560 (7 * 8 * 3 * 9 * 5). +The technique you're going to use here is called the largest series product. -Note that these series are only required to occupy *adjacent positions* -in the input; the digits need not be *numerically consecutive*. +Let's define a few terms, first. -For the input `'73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934'`, -the largest product for a series of 6 digits is 23520. +- **input**: the sequence of digits that you need to analyze +- **series**: a sequence of adjacent digits (those that are next to each other) that is contained within the input +- **span**: how many digits long each series is +- **product**: what you get when you multiply numbers together + +Let's work through an example, with the input `"63915"`. + +- To form a series, take adjacent digits in the original input. +- If you are working with a span of `3`, there will be three possible series: + - `"639"` + - `"391"` + - `"915"` +- Then we need to calculate the product of each series: + - The product of the series `"639"` is 162 (`6 × 3 × 9 = 162`) + - The product of the series `"391"` is 27 (`3 × 9 × 1 = 27`) + - The product of the series `"915"` is 45 (`9 × 1 × 5 = 45`) +- 162 is bigger than both 27 and 45, so the largest series product of `"63915"` is from the series `"639"`. + So the answer is **162**. diff --git a/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..597bb5fa1 --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/.docs/introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Introduction + +You work for a government agency that has intercepted a series of encrypted communication signals from a group of bank robbers. +The signals contain a long sequence of digits. +Your team needs to use various digital signal processing techniques to analyze the signals and identify any patterns that may indicate the planning of a heist. diff --git a/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/tests/largest-series-product.rs b/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/tests/largest-series-product.rs index 4811071d0..c40c75b02 100644 --- a/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/tests/largest-series-product.rs +++ b/exercises/practice/largest-series-product/tests/largest-series-product.rs @@ -68,30 +68,6 @@ fn a_span_is_longer_than_number_is_an_error() { assert_eq!(Err(Error::SpanTooLong), lsp("123", 4)); } -// There may be some confusion about whether this should be 1 or error. -// The reasoning for it being 1 is this: -// There is one 0-character string contained in the empty string. -// That's the empty string itself. -// The empty product is 1 (the identity for multiplication). -// Therefore LSP('', 0) is 1. -// It's NOT the case that LSP('', 0) takes max of an empty list. -// So there is no error. -// Compare against LSP('123', 4): -// There are zero 4-character strings in '123'. -// So LSP('123', 4) really DOES take the max of an empty list. -// So LSP('123', 4) errors and LSP('', 0) does NOT. -#[test] -#[ignore] -fn an_empty_string_and_no_span_returns_one() { - assert_eq!(Ok(1), lsp("", 0)); -} - -#[test] -#[ignore] -fn a_non_empty_string_and_no_span_returns_one() { - assert_eq!(Ok(1), lsp("123", 0)); -} - #[test] #[ignore] fn empty_string_and_non_zero_span_is_an_error() {