If you pay some money, Motor registry office will provide you 1000 numbers(like choose number between 853 to 1852) and you can choose one number from that 1000 numbers(there is a possibility that some number might have taken already with in that 1000. So you have to keep telling your favorite numbers and choose the one available in that).
I also ran into this situation and want to choose the lucky number 9. It's hard to list all numbers its sum is 9. So I wrote a small Java program where you can specify the lucky number, starting number and end number, it will print out all the numbers matching you lucky number. I thought it might be useful for some of you, so putting this program in blog.
public class VehicleLuckyNumber {
final static int LUCKY_NUMBER = 9;
final static int STARTING_NUMBER = 853;
final static int END_NUMBER = 1852;
public static void main(String[] args) {
int count=0;
for (int i=STARTING_NUMBER;i<= END_NUMBER; i++) {
if (sumValue(i)== LUCKY_NUMBER){
System.out.println(i);
count+=1;
}
}
System.out.println("Total count in lucky number("+LUCKY_NUMBER+") :"+count);
}
public static int sumValue(int number){
int sum = 0;
int digit = 0;
while(number > 0){
digit = number%10;
sum += digit;
number = number/10;
}
if (sum > 10) sum = sumValue(sum);
return sum;
}
}