On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 11:18 PM, Chris Devers wrote
> On a different note, last weekend on NPR there was a puzzle that it > seems > to me could be solved pretty neatly by a Perl script, and I'm curious > what solutions people would try for it. Consider the following string: > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 2002 > > The problem is to add any number of addition & multiplication > operations > wherever you'd like on the left such that in the end you have a valid > equation. Do you have to keep the digits in the same order? If so, there are only 3^8=6561 solutions to try. Between each digit you can have +, *, or nothing. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
