The spider essentially travels on the hypotenuse of a triangle with the sides `A` and `B+C`. For it to be the shortest path the condition `A <= B+C` must be true. The amount of integer-cuboids for a given value M is "All integer-cuboids with `A=M`" plus integer-cuboids(M-1). In our loop we start with `M=1` and increment it in every step. We also remember the last value (for `M-1`) and loop until the value exceeds one million. For a given value `A = M` we go through all possible `BC` value (`0 <= BC <= 2*A`) and test if `M^2 + BC^2` is an integer-square. If such a number is found and `BC <= A` then this means we have found `BC/2` additional cuboids (there are `BC/2` different `B+C = BC` combinations where `B <= C`) If, on the other hand `BC > A` then we have only found `A - (BC + 1)/2 + 1` additional cuboids (because the condition`A <= BC` must be satisfied). One of the more interesting parts was the `isSquareNumber()` function, which test if a number `x` has an integer square-root. To speed this function up *(it takes most of the runtime)* we can eliminate around 12% of the numbers with a few clever tricks. For example if the last digit of `x` is `2`, x is never a perfect square-number. Or equally if the last hex-digit is `7`. In our program we test twelve conditions like that: ~~~ x % 16 > 9 x % 64 > 57 x % 16 == 2 x % 16 == 3 x % 16 == 5 x % 16 == 6 x % 16 == 7 x % 16 == 8 x % 10 == 2 x % 10 == 3 x % 10 == 7 x % 3 == 2 ~~~ **Sources:** - [ask-math.com](http://www.ask-math.com/properties-of-square-numbers.html) - [johndcook.com](http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/11/17/fast-way-to-test-whether-a-number-is-a-square/) - [stackoverflow.com](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/295579/fastest-way-to-determine-if-an-integers-square-root-is-an-integer) If none of this pre-conditions is true we have to manually test the number. We use the same the same [integer-squareroot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_square_root) algorithm as in previous problems. If `isqrt(x)^2 == x` the we can be sure that x is a perfect square number.