Heiko Wundram wrote: > Hummm... Isn't it easier and faster to solve this problem by hand than to > code > a Python program for it? I had proofs for what has to be on both papers in > about 30 seconds... ;-)
Yeah, I had actually already figured it out in my head fairly quickly. > If you're looking for things to code in Python, I'd rather suggest you look > at > number theory than at logic problems. Basically, every logic problem can be > solved by exhaustive search (which is always the same algorithm), whereas a > number theory problem requires that you implement a certain algorithm from > scratch for each problem you're trying to tackle. Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know where I might find number theory problems that aren't too complicated? (No math degree here, in fact, just the opposite: English!) :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
