This post marks the beginning of the end. The end of the Free Code Camp bonfires. Ths time, we are going to be tackling the first bonfire in the advanced (or upper advanced) section. It deals […]
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FCC Bonfire Series 137: Everything be true
Today, we’ll deal with objects, for objects are wonderful! Everything be true will have us write a function that takes in 2 arguments. The first will be an array of objects (also called a collection), and […]
FCC Bonfire Series 134: Drop it
I come in with a short one today, similar to the last bonfire, Drop it will have use dealing with arrays and truth tests. This time, we need to drop elements of an array passed in as the […]
FCC Bonfire Series 133: Finders Keepers
Time for a new bonfire it is, this time, we’ll fight our way through Finders Keepers. This bonfire will have us create a function that takes two arguments; The first will be an array, and the second a will be truth test (a function that returns true/false). Our function must return the first item in the array that passes the test.
Free Code Camp hints at the using of the Array.prototype.some() method, and that’s where we are going to be starting, but we will also create a less functional version that, will, once again, be quite faster.
The Array.prototype.some() method will iterate over an array and execute a callback (function) over each item until one of them returns true. Once an item has passed the test, some() will return true; if no item passed, then, it is false. But…
FCC Bonfire Series 132: Smallest Common Multiple
Math goodness for everyone today! We are going to be calculating the Smallest (or Least, or Lowest) Common Multiple of a range of numbers, as prompted by the Smallest Common Multiple bonfire. In mathematics, the least common multiple is the smallest positive number that is a multiple of two or more numbers (source).
As an example, take numbers 5 and 11. What is the smallest number divisible by the two? Let’s get the multiples of each and find out!
- Multiples of 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65…
- Multiples of 11: 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99…
As you can see, the first match we come across is number 55, that number is the least common multiple. We could try and use fancy math formulas to get it, but we are going to take advantage of our dear friend, the processor to take on the workload this time (at first). Today, I shall present you three different ways to achieve the same goal. One of them will be a more readable, short version, the second will be a little messy, but takes about half the time to come up with a solution. And the third will use some clever math and come up with the answer much faster! Interested? Let’s get to it.
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