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Lesson 2 of 20 in Coddy's Mathematical Riddles course.

If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9.

The sum of these multiples is 23 (3 + 5 + 6 + 9 = 23).

Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 100, below 1000...

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Challenge

Easy

Write a function calc which takes integer N as input and returns the sum of the multiples of 3 or 5 below N .

For example for N=10 the function will return 23 because 3 + 5 + 6 + 9 = 23

Try it yourself

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include "solution.h"

int main() {
    int n;
    if (scanf("%d", &n) != 1) n = 0;
    int r = calc(n);
    printf("%d\n", r);
    return 0;
}

All lessons in Mathematical Riddles

2Multiples of 3 or 5

A problemA solution with no loops

5Diophantine Equation

IntroductionA problem