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

I'll put the code up online after I get home from work today at
http://www.flowersofpeace.com/telephone_code.html

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Josh Narins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>