Re: Perl 'Medium' Quiz-of-the-Whatever for 2009-08-11 : Plusified Equations

I set up my solution about a half year before the contest was
announced, although I would prefer if no one requests any answers to
future contests at this time.

Mine started when I noticed that my telephone number was a true
equation. Someone mentioned at work that the current calendar day was
a perfect square, or something quite like that, I mentioned my
telephone number, and someone asked for a programmatic solution.

My solution allows up to eight operators, +, -, *, /, **, ^, & and I,
but as a party trick, the first four are the default. It's also a
recursive solution around the number of digits, so you can blow out
your memory if you could think of some more operators.

Like the previous answer, I use eval. I also skip all numbers that
begin with 0 but basically because this is designed as a party trick,
and some people simply don't appreciate being told 1+01=2. I also
eliminate 0.

I also didn't care where the = was, so I try it at all meaningful locations.

Since it is recursive, I currently limit it to 10 digit numbers:

http://www.flowersofpeace.com/telephone

Also, if you have a mobile phone and live in NYC, you might like

http://www.flowersofpeace.com/weather


Someone nearby here at work did the same problem with an iterative solution