So, to remind myself, Euler's name is pronounced more like Oiler, right?
Project Euler
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#73I love a good puzzle solving club. Some of my favorites:
https://www.themastertheorem.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplex_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindTrap
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#74So, to remind myself, Euler's name is pronounced more like Oiler, right?
That's how I was taught, and Wikipedia agrees (and even provides audio clips alongside the IPA and English phonetic transcriptions).
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#75I wrote Problem 371, https://projecteuler.net/problem=371 , as a high school student in 2012! I'm so happy to have spent twenty years of my life learning math and solving problems on Project Euler and elsewhere.
This is one of my favourite problems, I still remember that it has a very real edge case even though I solved it more than 10 years ago. Thank you for the problem!
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#76I wrote Problem 619 ( https://projecteuler.net/problem=619 ) which was published on 2018-01-27 and solved by 474. The problem was based on 2013 Putnam Exam problem A2 ( https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/2013.pdf ) which I took at the end of undergrad. I got an email six years later (in November 2024) telling me they accepted the problem: Greetings! Please excuse the email. It's quite possible that you are no longe…
I was curious if LLMs are good for this problem. ChatGPT-5.1-Thinking one-shotted a correct Python script without any library use ( https://pastecode.io/s/jg6ggxpm ). Claude Opus failed to solve after trying for a while.
First of all, don't do this. No one cares. Secondly obviously every Euler solution is going to appear in the training data many times over. It's no surprise at all that an LLM can regurgitate data that was given to it.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was curious if LLMs are good for this problem. ChatGPT-5.1-Thinking one-shotted a correct Python script without any library use ( https://pastecode.io/s/jg6ggxpm ). Claude Opus failed to solve after trying for a while.
First of all, don't do this. No one cares. Secondly obviously every Euler solution is going to appear in the training data many times over. It's no surprise at all that an LLM can regurgitate data that was given to it.
I thought it was interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if Euler solutions weren't in the training data, especially for the later problems like this one.
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#78No one tells you that they delete inactive accounts. I used to have over 300 solved problems htere. Now it is all gone, all the effort, but the skill remained of course.
How long before they start deleting? I haven't logged in for 5 years and my account is still there.
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#79I wrote Problem 371, https://projecteuler.net/problem=371 , as a high school student in 2012! I'm so happy to have spent twenty years of my life learning math and solving problems on Project Euler and elsewhere.
This is one of my favourite problems, I still remember that it has a very real edge case even though I solved it more than 10 years ago. Thank you for the problem!
Can you reuse a plate with 500?
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#80I wrote Problem 371, https://projecteuler.net/problem=371 , as a high school student in 2012! I'm so happy to have spent twenty years of my life learning math and solving problems on Project Euler and elsewhere.
This is one of my favourite problems, I still remember that it has a very real edge case even though I solved it more than 10 years ago. Thank you for the problem!
I'm glad you enjoyed! It was a real game I played when driving around.