--- In [email protected], "Rakibul Islam" <rakib.uiu_...@...> wrote: > > > > Three brilliant school girls walking along see a car hit a cyclist and fled > away. They report the matter to the police like this : > > Girl 1: I couldn't see the entire number of the car, but I remember that it > was a four digit number and it's first two digits were divisible by 11 > > Girl 2 : I could see only the last two digits of the car's number, and they > two formed a number divisible by 11. > > Girl 3 : I saw the hole number but i forgot. But I am sure that the whole > number was a perfect square. > > Can you help the police trace the car by a C program? >
No I can't. But first, the girls are not brilliant at all, probably pyscho. They are trying to cover up a crime here by coming up with this maths. The police should interrogate them further and charge them with ... </sacarsm> A logic might be to run through perfect squares (with four digits) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_number and check the divisibility of the first two and last two digits. Lawal.O
