from math import sqrt from itertools import imap, ifilter, islice, count def factor_pairs(n): return ((x, n // x) for x in xrange(2, int(sqrt(n))) if n % x == 0) def fangs(n): dlen = lambda x: len(str(x)) half = dlen(n) // 2 digits = lambda (x, y): sorted(str(x) + str(y)) halvesQ = lambda xs: all(y == half for y in imap(dlen, xs)) dn = sorted(str(n)) return [p for p in factor_pairs(n) if halvesQ(p) and dn==digits(p)] def vampiricQ(n): fn = fangs(n) return (n, fn) if fn else None for v in islice(ifilter(None, imap(vampiricQ, count())), 0, 25): print v for n in [16758243290880, 24959017348650, 14593825548650]: print vampiricQ(n) or str(n) + " is not vampiric."