Re: Euler Project Problems.

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Albert van der Horst
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:59:18AM -0600, Ray St. Marie wrote:
>> I've finished the first Project Euler Problem using colorForth2.0a.
>>
>> http://projecteuler.net/
>>
>> I'm fairly certain that I won't be able to do all 200 or so problems
>> without research or help.
>
> I sorted the problems by difficulty, and I'm up to the math, mostly.
> But the hardest problem is 177, and I see no way to handle it without
> floating point. Even then it is ugly to decide that a number is an
> exact integer because it is fp within 10-9 of an integer.
>
> I have solved 5 now. In fact 6 because I have written a sudoku
> solver. Just have to run the 50 problems through it.
>
>>
>> Ray
>>
>> --
>> Raymond St. Marie ii,
>> colorforthray.info

Is this to say that the floating point registers of the pentium are
out of reach to us? Just wondering, because I really don't know.

Ray

>
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