In article ,
Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2012-12-31, Roy Smith wrote:
> > There's a problem I just worked where you need to find the last
> > 10 digits of some million-digit prime. Python's long ints
> > don't help you there. What does help you is figuring out a way
> > to solve the problem that
On 2012-12-31, Roy Smith wrote:
> There's a problem I just worked where you need to find the last
> 10 digits of some million-digit prime. Python's long ints
> don't help you there. What does help you is figuring out a way
> to solve the problem that's not brute-force. I think that's
> what Eul
On Monday, 31 December 2012 19:48:59 UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> If you haven't heard of it, you should check out Project Euler
>
> (http://projecteuler.net/). It's a series of (currently) 408
>
> math-oriented programming problems, of varying degrees of difficulty.
>
>
>
> The tie-in to
In article , "Alex"
wrote:
> Yes. Although sometimes I fear that we are becoming a society of
> end-users who rely too much on the capability of our tools and fail to
> take the time to understand the fundamentals upon which those tools are
> based or cultivate the problem-solving skills that Pr
On 2012-12-31, Alex wrote:
> Yes. Although sometimes I fear that we are becoming a society of
> end-users who rely too much on the capability of our tools and fail to
> take the time to understand the fundamentals upon which those tools are
> based or cultivate the problem-solving skills that Pro
Yes. Although sometimes I fear that we are becoming a society of
end-users who rely too much on the capability of our tools and fail to
take the time to understand the fundamentals upon which those tools are
based or cultivate the problem-solving skills that Project Euler
appears to be trying to ho
