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Re: Project Euler

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Post by Sparkle-san »

Like many others here, Project Euler was foundational in my education and growth as a programmer.

Leonhard Euler himself is an incredible figure and arguably the most prodigious contributor to mathematics throughout history. So much so that people started naming things discovered by him after the next person to have proved them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_named_after_Leo...

Re: Project Euler

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Post by graycat »

Glanced at the exercises. It appears that two of them have numbers arranged in a triangle and ask for a longest path.

Hmm. Given such a triangle, let m be the largest number in the triangle. For each x in the triangle, replace it with m - x. For the resulting triangle, solve it to give the shortest path using one of the well known network shortest path algorithms.

Re: Project Euler

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Post by bre1010 »

I discovered project euler as a novice programmer in high school around 15 years ago. I loved how solving a problem unlocks a secret forum only available to other solvers. I would spend hours reading through everyone's prior solutions and trying to understand them. One guy had tagged his profile as "haskell" but would always provide his solutions in ruby which threw child-me for quite a loop (I actually thought ruby and haskell were the same language for some time)!

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#14

Post by zkmon »

A great one of my favorite websites of the past. Wonder how they are coping with the issue of their users using AI to solve problems.

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#15

Post by unkulunkulu »

The most fun on this site is solving a problem and then having your mind blown by solutions in Apl/j/k and trying to guess what they mean without knowing anything about those languages

Re: Project Euler

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Post by Schiphol »

zkmon wrote: post #14

A great one of my favorite websites of the past. Wonder how they are coping with the issue of their users using AI to solve problems.

I suppose I wonder how those users are coping with having the robots do all the stuff instead of them doing some of the stuff.

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Post by 0x1ch »

I remember visiting Project Euler back in 2013/14 or so. Was really my first introduction to programming exercises as youngin. Probably did fifteen or so of them before ADHD kicked in though. A small gem on the web.

Re: Project Euler

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Post by campbel »

Gormisdomai wrote: post #8

This website was a part of my education as a computer scientist and seeing it here again I'm curious for the full story of how this site was made. Who made it, what do they do now, is it part of a broader project they have? There is only very basic info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Euler

Back in early 2000s, before hackerrank and similar coding sites, this is what my professors recommended for training programming skills.

Re: Project Euler

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Post by codexb »

Wow, I can't believe this is still around! I'm glad to see artifacts from the past like this are still out there on the internet.

Makes me miss Google CodeJam though.

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