100th place in the Project Eueler competition

Tonight I solved my 77th Project Eueler problem and am, for the time being, in 100th place overall. As per the scoring system, I'm now rated as being "67% Genius."

Project Euler, hosted at mathschallenge.net is an applied mathematical/programming contest. That's the sort of thing that a lot of people might find terribly tedious, boring, or down right scary, but I thoroughly enjoy the challenge. The goal is to write programs to solve particular mathematical problems or puzzles—a caveat being that programs should generally run in under a minute. (I confess that on a couple of occasions I've taken a brute-force approach that took longer.)

There are thirty problems I have yet to solve. To date most of my solutions have been coded in Tcl, though for some I've dusted off my C & Lisp skills (as atrophied as they are). In some cases the quickest route to an answer was to have Tcl code generate C code which could be compiled on the fly & executed.

If you are interested in programming & problem solving (in any language(s), some problems being very amenable to shell scripting even) I'd encourage you to sign up and take a stab at some of the problems. A complete list of problems is available on the mathschallenge.net website.

—Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 23:38

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