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Always fun to see more people doing things like this! See also Project Euler for LOTS of inspiration: http://projecteuler.net/ http://projecteuler.net/ I see
by timdellinger 15y ago
Always fun to see more people doing things like this!
See also Project Euler for LOTS of inspiration: http://projecteuler.net/ http://projecteuler.net/
I see these puzzles as part of grand tradition that includes sangaku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangaku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangaku) and Martin Gardner, among others.
- CountHackulus 15y agoThe main difference between these and Project Euler is that these are far more "programming" challenges, whereas Project Euler often boils down to brute forcing a solution once you've figured out the one or two mathematical tricks to reducing the problem space.
- timdellinger 15y agoGoogling for regular expressions puzzle turns up a few more of a slightly different but related flavor. It would be fun to develop a taxonomy and categorize the different recreational challenges that people find amusing, basing the categories on the type of "aha" and skillset required to solve it.