I once caused a vague division in my secondary school by writing a (looking back now) horrendously hacky OCR solver for our "world maths day" challenge. Litera

I once caused a vague division in my secondary school by writing a (looking back now) horrendously hacky OCR solver for our "world maths day" challenge. Literally half the teachers thought it was cheating and I should be punished, whilst the other half thought (because I hadn't abused it to win prizes) that it showed a creative use of more modern skills to make up for my renowned weak mental-math. I saw the joy in writing the solver as much more interesting than the math. Same way I can't focus on sudoku given I always try to "solve" solving it.