Project Euler

[Ian Curtis]

So, the other day I was stumbling and ran into this excellent waste of time. It's a series of math/programming problems, which get increasingly more difficult, although you're free to solve them in any order. Some of the early ones can be solved easily with a for loop, looking, or a good old friend named Excel. Later ones, I have no idea even how to begin.

http://projecteuler.net/

[ComradeNikolai]

Great find! I can forsee myself wasting err spending many hours doing all of these! Combining my two foremost passions... mathematics and programming.

[tennispro9911]

That sounds interesting. How many have people solved?

[whitetiger0990]

I haven't played with it in awhile (and they've since taken to adding a problem per week, and actually just stopped doing that for the summer), but I've solved 52 problems (using perl)

=)

[EricVanWyk]

Dang it, and I thought I was going to be productive.

I've solved 13 since I saw you post it here. Thank You Python.

[tennispro9911]

Haha, yeah I solved 17 of them since I saw the post about it.

[tennispro9911]

This thing has me hooked. 30 now solved.

[tim_reiher]

Owwwwwwwww...

My brain hurts.......

[whitetiger0990]

Oh geez tennispro9911, don't you have anything else to do over the summer? =P
( http://projecteuler.net/index.php?se...=tennispro9911 )

I need to do some more. >_>

[tennispro9911]

Haha, the bad part is I do have stuff to do right now, that I've been working on some. I have my grad party tomorrow, a meeting to discuss a possible custom two-speed transmission prototype over the summer that I've been pushing. I put together a powerpoint for that yesterday, and my graduation ceremony is saturday which I've been working on my speech for. I have spent too much time on that site though. Thats for sure.

You have quite a large chunk done yourself:
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?se...whitetiger0990

[Joe Ross]

I think I'm going to do them in labview.

[tennispro9911]

I've never touched labview. If I'm involved with robotics next year I probably will, but I'm graduating, so I won't be as involved. Anyway, even though I'm not too shabby at programming, I'm a mechanical guy myself.

[IKE]

And I thought I was addicted by doing a few of them yesterday. I am not a programmer, so I have been doing them in excel or by hand. Most of them I understand the programming concept for, I just don't currently use any programming languages. For many of these though, I will likely dust off my matlab books.

[IKE]

OK, I guess many of these aren't too bad since I got another 6 with excel and pencil and paper.

There is someone from the pencil and paper group claiming 193 solutions. Pretty crazy.

Just checked out the stats above. 50+ not bad.

[acdcfan259]

Ahh, my head hurts, don't do it with a pencil, a paper, and a calculator.