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#50 rewrite of solution
author Dominic Cleal <dominic@computerkb.co.uk>
date Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:11:55 +0000
parents 1ca695e32f66
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import sys


num = """
73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934
96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843
85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511
12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557
66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113
62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749
30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866
70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776
65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243
52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397
53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482
83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474
82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881
16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586
17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042
24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408
07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188
84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606
05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725
71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450
"""

roll = []
rollt = 0

best = []
bestt = 0

for d in num:
	if not d.isdigit():
		continue
	
	n = int(d)
	if n == 0:
		roll = []
		rollt = 0
		continue
	
	roll.append(n)
	if len(roll) > 5:
		rollt -= roll.pop(0)
	rollt += n
	if rollt > bestt:
		best = []
		for c in roll:
			best.append(c)
		bestt = rollt

print best
m = 1
for d in best:
	m *= d
print m