Is total digits of the factorial a perfect square?, listed 12-23-2005 10 ' factsrch.bas - FreeWare 2006 - eric f. tchong 20 GOTO 60 ' begin 30 SAVE "factsrch.bas",A:LIST-60 40 GOTO 330 ' wait for key 50 GOTO 360 ' text 60 DIM A%(5000):DEFSTR M,Q:Q=MKI$(0) 70 M(1) ="Search for perfect triangles" 80 M(2) ="Examples of perfect triangles:" 90 M(3) ="Digits 4 9 16 36 81 121 169 225 441 529 576 625" 100 M(4) ="Factorials 7 12 18 32 59 81 105 132 228 265 284 304" 110 CLS:LOCATE 2,1 120 FOR I=1 TO 4 130 GOSUB 50:IF I=1 THEN PRINT 140 NEXT:GOSUB 40:CLS 150 FOR N=7 TO 1000 160 ' DG = digit, CR = carry 170 DG=1:CR=0 180 A%(1)=1 190 FOR I=2 TO N 200 FOR J=1 TO DG 210 A%(J)=A%(J)*I+CR 220 CR=INT(A%(J)/10) 230 A%(J)=A%(J)-10*CR 240 NEXT 250 IF CR>0 THEN C=INT(CR/10):DG=DG+1:A%(DG)=CR-10*C:CR=C:GOTO 250 260 CR=0 270 NEXT:EC=DG:IF SQR(EC)=INT(SQR(EC)) THEN 280 ELSE 290 280 PRINT N ; EC 290 NEXT 300 PRINT:PRINT "End of search N = ";N-1 310 PRINT "Press any key to exit this program":GOSUB 40:CLS:END 320 ' wait for key 330 LSET Q=MKI$(0) 340 WHILE CVI(Q)=0:MID$(Q,1)=INKEY$:WEND:RETURN 350 ' text 360 T=(80-LEN(M(I)))/2:PRINT TAB(T) M(I):RETURN