Strong Number Listing and checking if input is strong number or not

A number is called strong number if the number is equal to the sum of factorials of digits of the number.

Example :
Number 145 is a strong number as sum of factorial of 1 , 4 and 5 is equal to 145
145= 1! + 4! + 5!

Checking Strong number and generating all strong numbers within a range in PHP

There are three parts in this script.

Function to get Factorial of a number
Collecting all digits of the number
Finding sum of the factorial of digits and comparing

Function to get Factorial of a number

We will use one function to get the factorial of any input number.

function fact($n){
$factorial=1;
for ($i=1; $i<=$n;$i++){
	$factorial=$factorial*$i;
}
return $factorial;
}

Getting all digits of the input number.

$n1=1234; // Sample number  
while($n1>0){
	$d=$n1%10; // reminder of division 
	echo $d; // one digit from right
	$n1=floor($n1/10); // floor value
}

Using the above two concepts we can find out the sum of factorial of any number. We will create one sticky form to take user input and then find out it is strong number or not.

<?Php
$n1=$_POST['n1'];
echo "<form method=POST action=''>
<input type=text name=n1 value='$n1'> 
<input type=submit value=Submit>
</form>";
function fact($n){
$factorial=1;
for ($i=1; $i<=$n;$i++){
	$factorial=$factorial*$i;
}
return $factorial;
}
$sum=0;
$n2=$n1;
while($n1>0){
	$d=$n1%10; // reminder of division 
	$sum = $sum  + fact($d);
	$n1=floor($n1/10); // floor value
}
if($n2==$sum){
	
echo "$n2 is  a Strong Number ";	
}else{
echo "$n2 is NOT a Strong Number ";		
}
?>

Listing all strong numbers

Without taking user input we can list all strong number over a range. We can find out all strong numbers less than 100000.

<?Php
function fact($n){
$factorial=1;
for ($i=1; $i<=$n;$i++){
	$factorial=$factorial*$i;
}
return $factorial;
}
for($i=10;$i<100000;$i++){
$sum=0;
$n2=$n1=$i;
while($n1>0){
	$d=$n1%10; // reminder of division 
	$sum = $sum  + fact($d);
	$n1=floor($n1/10); // floor value
}
if($n2==$sum){
echo "$n2 is  a Strong Number <br> ";	
}

}
?>

Output

145 is a Strong Number
40585 is a Strong Number

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Checking Strong number in PHP

Function to get Factorial of a number

Listing all strong numbers

Subhendu Mohapatra